Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...visit of Prince Hichibu Yashito, second son of the Emperor of Japan, to the U. S. during the coming Summer was forecast. The visit is destined to express Japan's appreciation and gratitude to the people of the U. S. for their generous aid during the period following the great earthquake of last Fall...
...significance of the projected visit lies in the fact that only once before in the whole history of Japan has an Emperor's son ever left the shores of Japan to visit a foreign country. That was when Crown Prince Hirohito (now Regent) made his world tour...
...vehicle contained the dress-suited form of Charles Beecher Warren, newly appointed U. S. Ambassador to Mexico, and a Mexican Diplomat escorting the envoy on his first official visit to President Obregon. The streets from the Embassy to the National Palace were lined with dense, silent crowds. There was only the sound of the hoofs and the carriage wheels, as the cavalcade, including the Embassy staff in other carriages, dashed past. The only cheers along the entire line of march was given by a small boy, who yelled: "Viva los Americanos 1 Viva el Senor Warren...
...brother Philip Gibbs-whom he admires tremendously-who, when forced upon a lecture platform, always looks like a "frightfully tired Savonarola who is speaking in a trance." And there are Hamilton's own sensations on such occasions, when he always gives impromptu speeches. There is his visit to America where he met John Drew, the "Squire of Easthampton and the gardenia of the American stage"; his meeting with the "wistful Charlie Chaplin, who hides the soul of Punchinello beneath the comic rags of slapstick"; and that "delightful, naive and unconceited man, Will Rogers, who will never recover from...
...right of the Portone di Bronzo, across the square (Piazza San Pietro), stands a welfare institution conducted by Americans (K. of C.) for Italian children. Ferdinand Tuohy, correspondent of The New York World, telegraphed to his paper that Pope Pius XI would visit and dedicate this institution on Wednesday, April 9. Impossible...