Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...John Simon returned to London from India last week. He is the great Liberal barrister who is Chairman of the Indian Statutory Commission (TIME, Jan. 9 et seq.). The Seven Wise Commissioners have now completed their first visit to India, a visit which has been punctuated by numerous riots and demonstrations against them. Their mission is to recommend, after much further study, what additional measure of sovereignty shall be extended to Indians. Last week Sir John struck a significant keynote when he said: "The Commission will recommend no sweeping changes in the Indian form of Government. The Indian people...
...Austen Chamberlain, the British Foreign Secretary, journeyed to The Hague and settled down for a fortnight's visit as the house guest of U. S. Minister to the Netherlands Richard Montgomery Tobin. Presently Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands bade Sir Austen to come and take dinner at the unpretentious, neatly painted mansion which serves as Her Majesty's palace. Placid Dutch courtiers admitted that Crown Princess Juliana, 19, is beginning to ponder whether she should take as a useful consort one of the British King-Emperor's younger sons: Prince Henry, 28, or Prince George...
What Agent Gilbert did definitely say, last week,, was that any contemplated revision of the Dawes Plan is still "in the phase of study," and that "no extraordinary or decisive results" are to be expected from his present visit to Rome. He went on to reaffirm his oft repeated statement that the revision of German liabilities at a definite and presumably somewhat reduced figure would not necessarily involve a similar readjustment of Allied indebtedness to the U. S. Said Agent Gilbert, in the manner of President Coolidge: "The reparation question is an entirely independent problem concerning only European nations...
Harvard men who visit a new restaurant in Fifty-seventh Street called the Granada Grill are falling on the neck, quite literally, of the rotund black doorman resplendent in new maroon uniform and gold-toothed smile. For it has turned out he is none other than Terry of beloved memory, for nineteen years clerk and general factotum of the Dean's office in Cambridge and famous for his memory of students' names and faces...
...third performance took place in Orchestra Hall in Detroit, and the next in Masonic Hall in Cleveland. After both of these performances the cast attended buffet suppers given by alumni. The Cleveland visit was somewhat marred by the discovery that during the show several members of the cast has been robbed of sums amounting to about $150 by a chief rummaging through their clothes in the dressing room...