Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dukes and archdukes are not coming here with the intention of overthrowing our republican form of government in the hope of establishing a monarchy. According to newspaper reports, people clamored and paid admission for the purpose of curtseying and kissing the hand of these pretenders (reference to the recent visit of the Grand Duchess Victoria Feodorovna (TIME, Dec. 15) in a manner so un-American that it would have been shocking were it not so ridiculously stupid...
...peace award of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation (TIME, Jan. 5, FOREIGN NEWS), went to Washington. In company with Sir Esmé Howard, British Ambassador, he called at the White House and conversed in camera with the President. Their meeting was variously described: by Lord Cecil as "a pleasant visit," by a White House spokesman as "an exchange of amenities...
...Governor Norman has authorized me to say in his behalf that his visit to New York is his customary trip, which he has made every year or two in the past in a similar way, for the purpose of conferring with the officers of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, which is the New York representative of the Bank of England. I made a similar trip to London last spring...
...Johnston. They were René LaCoste and Jean Borotra. René had no trouble in covering himself with la glorie. He beat Jean, the French Davis Cup captain, 114 points to 88 (8-6, 6-0, 6-3) and captured the Christmas Cup. Then, said René: "With another visit to the United States, I may do better...
...years ago, he paid a visit to the U. S., delivered some lectures on "Form and Color in Art," "The Art of Costume," in which he denounced timorous pastel shades in dress, advocated the bravery of barbaric Russian colors. Everywhere society feted him. One dowager invited him to her parlor, which she had adorned for the occassion in crimson and gold. She herself was accoutred in emerald and azure; her children in clothes copied from Russian ballets. "How do you like this?" she asked. "Dear madame," he replied, "do you see me calling on you in golden trousers, red waistcoat...