Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Throne of God is a vast mountain of the Tien Shans in Central Asia where Russia gnaws into China. There on the border Ivan Pavlovitch Tokareff was, for this story, the misogynist commander of the Cossack police garrison. And there his boyish niece Fedossia went to visit him. They hunted in the deserts, chased and captured Kara-Kirghiz bandits, rescued a lecherous Russian fop from the underground Chinese desert city Tourfan, partook in a Kirghiz baiga (rodeo), found gold together, watched the Fouidoutoun of Souidoun dynamite himself, his family and his dwelling in despair over the Chinese revolution, and decided...
...proper spelling, of course, is URUGUAY, and the mistake is quite probably typographical. However, should the good Uruguayans see it, now that their interest is focused more than ever upon the United States because of Mr. Hoover's recent visit, they would certainly not feel complimented...
...thus setting London's impeccable chappies terribly agog. On the very next evening dozens of red carnations appeared in Mayfair, and smart women flattered their escorts by thrilling, "How adorably ghastly!" Meanwhile, however, Jester Wales, having had his floral joke,* was speeding nocturnally toward the north of England, to visit in grim earnest the stricken coal fields where a half-million miners are workless and nigh to starving (TIME...
Professor Salvemini speaks English fluently and is considered a forceful and authoritative lecturer on modern Italian diplomacy. Since his visit to this country is of such a short duration, it was with great difficulty that Professor Langer who has charge of History 3, prevailed upon the prominent historian to come to the University. The place of the lectures which will be given on February 27, February 28, and March 1, will be announced later...
...Governor Norman has headed the Bank of England for eight years (the pound sterling was down to $3.20 when he took office, is now back to its normal $4.85) his movements arouse rumor, speculation. Financial sharps reported that he intended to visit Governor George L. Harrison of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, surmised that the two Governors might discuss some method of preventing further movements of gold from London to New York with out resorting to raising the British bank rate...