Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shields, in their right hands their famous assagais (spears). On their heads were enormous spreading headdresses of black feathers. They began a kind of dance, worked themselves up through weird contortions to a "terrific frenzy" that was accompanied by blood-curdling yells and "dirgelike singing of the women." The visit of the Prince had the effect of healing a long-standing breach between the Usutu (Royalists) and the Mandhlakazi (the ones of great strength), and together they came to offer tribute to the Great King...
...Monday morning all those rowing here will visit the nearby government submarine base and will be taken for a dive in one of the undersea crafts. In the afternoon the crews will all be given a hard workout...
...Murphy devoting their energies to correcting petty faults which have become manifest during the last few days. Visitors to the Yale camp at Gales Ferry have become so numerous in the last few days that the coaches are seriously considering putting some ban on the hours which people may visit the camp...
Faced with this predicament, the Finance Minister let it ooze out that he contemplates a visit to the U. S., presumably to borrow enough to pay the $9,000,000. But, in the U. S., he will be confronted with the matter of $18,000,000 owing to the U. S, Government; and, not unlikely, awkward questions will be asked concerning the money which Rumania must raise to pay for 50 new Fokker airplanes which she recently ordered from the Fokker Aircraft Manufacturing...
...that five thousand Zulus danced themselves into a frenzy over the Prince of Wales will not surprise the American public, for headlines and rotogravures and little private tales have long since generalized the popular association of "dancing", "frenzy", and "prince". In spite of the rumor that the Prince's visit to America was just another publicity attempt of the Fox-Trot Association, the newspapers spread the reports of his fad for dancing through the world, with the result that his loyal subjects in South Africa decided that his visit could be fittingly celebrated only by examples of the closest approximations...