Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...officials at King's, Cambridge, after a visit.) If there were greater provision of beer and ale, I should re-maim until Friday...
...newest and perhaps greatest musical notability who will visit the U. S. during the present season will be Siegfried Wagner, son of the great Richard. He comes on a concert tour. The proceeds will be devoted to the rehabilitation of Baireuth* Wagnerian Festivals devoted to the ceremonious and supposedly ideal performance of his father's works. A great deal of legendary glory surrounds Siegfried. He is, to begin with, the offspring of a famed romance. Richard Wagner, then entering the full flame of his success, broke with his first wife, Minna, who had shared the bitter bread...
...audience Rear Admiral Andrews, commanding U. S. naval forces in European waters; Captain Klemann, commanding the U. S. S. Pittsburgh; Lieutenant Commander King and Lieutenant Hunter. Father Burke, Vice Rector of the American College in Rome, formerly a naval chaplain, made the presentations. The Pope expressed pleasure at the visit, hoped that the fleet would have a successful cruise, gave the Papal benediction...
...went to the Seine because he wanted to see it before the floods abated. The following morning he rubbed shoulders with Parisiens and Parisiennes of all kinds, shapes and sizes as he went about in the pouring rain "to do some shopping." In the afternoon he paid an unofficial visit to President Millerand at the Palais dElysée. In the evening he went to the theatre. His next day was spent in "amusing himself," at least until he had to attend a dinner at the British Embassy. His last day was spent in a wild round of incognito lunches...
...Eminence, Cardinal William H. O'Connell, Archbishop of Boston, overworked, in ill-health, set out on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land-his first visit there. Before leaving he said: "We are all interested in the controversy among Episcopalians and Presbyterians, but it is a time for us to pray rather than to interfere." He expressed regrets...