Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Visit. It was about 11:30 one fine morning when the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Winston Churchill, wandered into No. 11 Downing St., back from a weekend at his country place in Kent. He had not been there long when an acquaintance from across the Channel arrived to keep an engagement. Mr. Churchill was in good humor. Apparently he had not let the impending visit of his acquaintance spoil his weekend...
...hide by any Carthaginian will could circle. . . A palace. . . Moving toward it a cavalcade of peons wearing sombreros, embroidered shirts, silver- studded belts, mounted on caballas . . . In a motor, a decorous Prince. It continued to be said that the Prince would be instructed by his royal parents to visit the West Indies, and that in consideration of this additional service rendered, he would be permitted a week on Long Island before going home...
...Author. A dainty young lady was doing deck sports in the Mediterranean when the steward reached her with a radiogram: "Perennial Bachelor wins second Harper $2,000 novel contest,-" or words to match. Swiftly she informed her husband, Charles A. Corliss, of Englewood, N. J. Joyfully she recalled a visit to her former home, Claremont, Del., when her mother had coined the title. After four years ransacking attics, museums, once-popular song folios, old journals and letters, Peterson's Floral Adornments for the Home of Taste, Friendship Albums, memories of elders and bygone fashion-plates (perhaps too many...
King Gustav, after opening the conference (TIME, Aug. 31) paid a brief visit to Finland. Returned, he, the Crown Prince who is most religious, and the Crown Princess continued to attend the sessions...
...have just returned from a week-end visit . . . where I heard a piano demonstrated whose tones grow or die as the performer chooses. I heard the volume in creased after the tone had been struck ... all this without in any degree altering the characteristics or the piano tone...