Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Friedrich W. von Prittwitz und Gaffron, the German Ambassador, sought relief from Washington's heat at Hot Springs, Va., making occasional trips back to the capital only when necessary. He hopes to visit the Fatherland later in the summer. H. H. Prince Albert de Ligne, Belgium's Ambassador, has removed himself and his diplomatic entourage to Gibson Island, Md., in Chesapeake Bay. Katsuji Debushi, the Japanese, has gone to Buena Vista, Va., for cooling elevation. The Mexican Ambassador, Senor Don Manuel C. Tellez, went to his own country, where it is really...
...complete spectacular nudity.* Much publicity has been given the Nudist colony on an island in the Seine near Paris. Lively have been their arguments, moral, economic, religious, with Prefect of Police Jean Chiappe over the matter of bathing trunks. Some weeks ago a young French reporter paid a secret visit to the Nudist colony. So depressing, so disillusioning was his published account of the flabby spectacle that the romantic French press and public lost interest in the entire business...
Able Newsman Walter Duranty, long-time correspondent in Russia for the New York Times, who early this month traveled down the broad Volga, left the river often to visit the interior of the great grain provinces of Samara, Kazan and Saratov. He noted no undue disturbances or signs of starvation and reported last week: "The harvest, instead of fair to medium, may be distinctly above the average if the weather remains favorable. The advocates of rationing claim that . . . it plays a useful role in the socialization policy which the Kremlin is now pushing so actively...
...Lawn-mowing in Winnetka is a regular Martinelli summer occupation. It is good for the girth. Among the regular Martinelli outpourings will be Manon Lescaut, Samsonn et Dalila, Aida. Curly-haired Tenor Martinelli returned, not long ago, from his first-in-16-years visit to Italy. Near him in Winnetka will be versatile Tenor Edward Johnson...
Next fall, Choreographer Laban expects to visit the U. S. Perhaps his idea will result in a National Streetdancing Advertising Co. Or perhaps he will find that the U. S. is not yet sufficiently ballet-conscious for the idea to "take...