Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...same time, may I point out an inaccuracy which may cause embarrassment to those of your distinguished readers, who, having read this article, should expect to see the late Jean Philippe Worth when they visit the House of Worth on the Rue de la Paix...
Many of the Legionairies, while en route to Belgium, stopped off to visit and some to picnic at Vimy Ridge, in France. Thence they proceeded to Ypres, Belgium, and assembled around the famed Menin Gate, an imposing War memorial almost covered by the inscribed names of more than 55,000 British Dead. Into a radio microphone, set up in the roadway before Menin Gate, spoke Charles of Flanders, Edward of Wales, and finally the Archbishop of York...
...Tysons and Agent John J. Mitchell† went to the Helen Morgan Club again and again. Their check was $92.60 the second time. On their third visit Louis Zalud brought Helen Morgan, the "hostess," to their table and introduced her. She sat down and asked for brandy. When it came, they complimented her on its quality. She told them it ought to be good because "it costs us $6.25 a quart wholesale." She explained : "We don't handle gin because all the college boys drink gin....They generally have only about $20 to spend in an evening and bring...
...French Royalist news organ, L' Action Française gravely carried in its "Court Circular," last week, the news that "King Jean III of France"† was sending his only son, the "Dauphin Henri of France" on a State Visit to British King-Emperor George V. Ignorant French republicans sniggered, supposing that a chill British reception, if any, awaited Dauphin Henri...
...contrary, the State Visit was taken with utmost seriousness at Buckingham Palace. A banquet of thoroughgoing sumptuousness was got ready. His Majesty George V welcomed and even embraced the Dauphin of France, latest of the Bourbons. Her Majesty Queen-Empress Mary was ashimmer with diadems usually reserved for great occasions...