Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that he would arrive " in three weeks' time&"i. e., on Sept. 15. At all events, the man who is hated in Germany, loathed in France, detested in Italy,'' whose name is anathema to Central Europe, the Balkans, Turkey, not to mention sundry other places, is coming soon. His visit will be nonpolitical. Sir Alfred Cope, Under Secretary for Ireland (1920-22), in the U. S. to arrange for Mr. Lloyd George's visit, said that Mr. Lloyd George had long been anxious to visit the U. S. and that " he wants to see you Americans who are teaching...
Offer to Northeast Ulster a peace based on local autonomy. Wipe out internal dissension and bitterness. Achieve real peace. Sir Alfred Cope, ex-Under Secretary for Ireland, in Manhattan to arrange for the visit of Mr. Lloyd George this month, said of Ireland: " Ireland is coming along very well. The most important thing I see in the situation at present is the indication that the old antagonism between the North of Ireland and the South is dying out. . . . With Craig at the head of the Government in the North, and Cosgrave directing things in the Free State, Ireland...
...will be back on Broadway her enthusiasm will scarcely unhinge her to the point of crowning herself with a flatiron. The Russian fad, a trifle overdone, is fading. Where then can the producer turn? Possibly to Argentina, which is receiving inordinate publicity of late owing to the successful business visit of Senor Luis Angel Firpo. Japan and China have been veterans since The Mikado. The Negro rage and the grass-skirt scare are already moribund. Spain and the clatter of castanets is gone. Covered with dust are the crinoline, the harem skirt, Scotch kilts. The stage of the American revue...
Andrew W. Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury: "In Paris I told a friend that on my first French visit 44 years ago, the late Henry C. Frick of Pittsburgh and I, having occasion to go to a dance in Paris, but lacking evening clothes, rented some from a Latin Quarter store and had the most enjoyable time I have ever experienced in Paris...
...Europe Governments subsidize enterprises of high music. In the U. S. we are being treated to some interesting schemes of the reverse. The State of Georgia has imposed upon opera companies that visit it a tax of $2,500 for performing in a large city, $1,000 for performing in a smaller one. The business of producing operas has not yet become profitable enough in this country or any other to stand much taxation. The legislators of Georgia must be optimistic indeed to expect any appreciable revenue out of the music-drama. Observers have noted on Goliath operatic developments...