Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with the flesh of sacrificed animals, washed down by the remains of the juice. Every day there were new ceremonies, until Capt. Cook sailed away several weeks later. One of his crew had died; the Hawaiians thought that rather peculiar, but otherwise they were satisfied with the visit of the Great White...
More than three miles tall, the "Mountains of the Moon" tower above Central Africa, regal in tremendous ermine robes of perpetual snow. Last week a white King & Queen passed with the pomp of a state visit before the white Moon Mountains. Black buck Negroes and black buxom Negresses prostrated themselves, as was fitting, before His Majesty Albert I, King of the Belgians and of Belgian Congo Blackamoors-and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth. The white Sovereigns, complacent, were on tour through their Afric domains, which are larger in area than all Western Europe and contain almost as many Blackamoors as does...
...slaves and strumpets. The strumpeteer was King Leopold II of the Belgians (1835-1909), detested uncle and immediate predecessor of beloved King Albert I. Uncle Leopold went wickedly a-travel-ing when he was Crown Prince, to India, to China, to Japan and home around Africa, with a momentous visit to Mother Congo. Memories of Congoland germinated in the shrewd brain of Uncle Leopold and flowered when he became King. The master move of his long and wily reign was to call the International Conference of 1876 at Brussels, where he piously proposed to the Great Powers a program...
...Twenty Turkish policemen of Constantinople completed, last week, a course rendering them "proficient in the English language" and thus considerably more useful to the 17,000 tourists who annually visit the "City of Minars" and the Golden Horn...
Such items as these would be found in a daily newspaper column about shops and department stores. Such items together with shrewd bits of advice for merchants and customers would interest the thousands who work for stores and the daily millions who visit them. But such a column, now appearing daily in the New York Telegram (Scripps-Howard), signed by a young woman named Alice Hughes,* is unique in modern metropolitan journalism. Ethically inconsistent, U. S. dailies consume tons of paper in chatting about automobiles, amusements, radio, real estate, banks, all of which advertise heavily; but they have hitherto refused...