Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Oliver M. Sayler, in his history of the "Russian theatre Under the Revolution" gives a detailed account of his life. "Nikolai is in his early prime, yet he has accomplished already a lifetime of work," states Mr. Sayler. "From his first visit to a playhouse at the age of five, at Yekaterinburg, he was lured to the stage, and he straightway established his own theatre in his home. There at the age of seven he produced his first dramatic composition, "A Dinner With the Minister of State...
...been allowed to come near enough to exhibit her Hellenic proportions to western eyes. The State Department would have seen to that. Realizing that the female of the species can create commotion too communistic for democratic hearts to bear, the gentlemen at Washington very cavalierly cancel the Countess Karolyis visit here. On foreign soap boxes she must stand, not on the 99 plus percent pure cubes of these United States. If there is to be any propagandizing it must be native born. Even the hot air must be national...
...does seem as though the masters of popular destiny could behave a little less boorishly, not to say stupidly. Surely they know that what storm she could brew in the tea pots of the pleasant circles where she would visit could not do half the damage of this greater storm raised by their own rigor. It is indeed unfortunate that the Department of State must be so unpleasant to such a good looking lady...
...these pictures really are of the ibex, scientists think that they will have proof of a pre-Columbian visit of Asiatics to the Pacific coast. Such a visit to the Pacific coast, comparable to the ancient landing of Lief Ericsen on the Atlantic coast, is considered by no means impossible, it has been pointed out. Other possible evidence of the presence of Asiatics on the western coast is the story of a complete Chinese junk, found buried in the gravel of a stream by early Californian settlers...
This will be the first visit of the Association, since its start 25 years ago, to Yale since 1904. The scope of the conference is limited to matters connected with graduate study...