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Word: visitant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lean faced Texan with a curious eye walked in and looked around It was his first visit. With a curious deference he was sharpening their pencils for the meeting of the Council of the League of Nations on September 4. Then he called on Sir Eric Drummond the Secretary General of The League and was courteously recieved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: The Pencil Sharpeners | 8/31/1925 | See Source »

...tailoring business of Argentine was given a great boost by the Prince's visit. One large establishment reported the delivery of 200 dress suits, and 500 morning coats in a single week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: A Wow | 8/31/1925 | See Source »

...Caillaux has not the facility with la langue anglaise of his compatriot, M. Briand, who two weeks ago paid so amiable a visit to England concerning the proposed security pact with Germany. But the keenwitted French master of finance doubtless counts himself fully equal to the problem of dealing with Mr. Churchill on the question of France's debt to England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: To England | 8/31/1925 | See Source »

...wont to prowl. But the lovers had fled far away leaving the Bois empty, save for gendarmes. Three days Zizi spent in the park while the man who had first wooed her from the Malayan jungle, wrung his hands in distress. Then one morning she left the park to visit a boys' school. The master spied her, called gendarmes. She fled into a lavatory, jumped out of a window, but the gendarmes pursued her with bullets and she died in a ditch. The leopard hunter who had brought her to the Paris Zoo, looked at her body and wept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News Notes, Aug. 31, 1925 | 8/31/1925 | See Source »

...long time taken things into its own hands, but last week it went a bit too far according to British and Japanese notions. It issued a manifesto denying British and Japanese ships the use of certain ports including Canton; it allowed ships of other nations to visit those ports provided they did not call at Hongkong (British enclave); it provided for inspection of foreign vessels visiting ports by pickets of the Anti-Imperialist Union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: At Canton | 8/31/1925 | See Source »

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