Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...receive a visit from Dr. Wilhelm Cuno, former Chancellor of Germany and now head of the Hamburg-American Line, who was in Washington to confer with members of the Shipping Board...
...Edouard Herriot, Mayor of Lyons, Socialist member of the Chamber of Deputies, who recently paid a visit to the U. S. (TIME, Oct. 1), again set foot on his native soil. Said he: " The Americans are a magnificent race-beautiful women and fine men." He kept his political impressions to himself and the only criticism to which he gave vent was of the U. S. customs system, which he described as " a regular inquisition," He was loud in praise of U. S. labor-saving devices...
Anselmo Bonin, accustomed to boasting that he had a great fortune in gold and who was always ready to lend to his neighbors, was disturbed by a visit from four masked bandits. Bonin refused to divulge the hiding place of his gold hoard and the bandits first beat him " until his body was a mass of blood and bruises," then broke his bones. The victim was reported unwilling to speak, so the bandits roasted him over a fire in the kitchen hearth; then left him for dead. Bonin was not dead! No trace of the inquisitioners was found...
...present situation and the rights and wrongs of it. Furthermore, Mr. Guavara will undoubtedly lay before his audience the case for Philippine Independence. The agitation for such independence began at the time of annexation and has increased ever since. If Mr. Guavara can be inveigled into paying Harvard a visit, he will certainly be assured of a large and interested audience...
Regard for the feeling of the dead is, like the belief in relies or the desire to visit the tombs of departed greatness, a survival of primitive hero worship. And everybody is anxious about the ultimate disposal of his own corpse. Yet Diogenes, reports Cicero, ordered his to be thrown out unburied. "To the birds and the beasts!" cried his shocked friends. "Not at all," was the answer, "but-lay a stick beside me so that I can drive them off". "How can you, since you will not feel them?" "Well, if I do not feel them, what will...