Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prison despair. He had been ill most of the latter months in jail; he had taught in the prison Sunday school; had edited Good Words, the prison newsmagazine; never, during his sentence, did Warren T. McCray, a proud man, allow his wife or any member of his family to visit him. When told of his parole, the one-time Governor had wept for a few minutes and then, in dim fashion, had begun to gather his possessions. Now he declared to reporters as he boarded a train for Indianapolis: "This is the happiest day of my life...
...Ettore Caser, Gerrit Beneker, Lilian Westcott Hale, Hosvep Pushman, Paul King). Other ships have followed in the wake. The Aquitania became a nautical gallery by bringing to the U. S. Mrs. Dod Proctor's "Morning," the most notable painting in this year's Royal Academy show, for a short visit. The Hamburg-American liner New York exhibited last year the collection of the 15th Century canvasses which had hung in the National Arts Club, Ambassador Myron Timothy Herrick sponsored a show aboard the French steamer Paris. Other boats which now float picture galleries: Leviathan (U. S. Line), Santa Luisa...
Mayors are memorable in proportion to the extent that they represent the popular conception of their cities. Should the Lord Mayor of London visit the U. S., none would be content if he failed to take with him some prancing coach horses, a mace, a port complexion and some coldstream guards. The mayor of Stamboul would have to produce a hookah out of his silk bloomers. By what tokens should the mayor of New York be known abroad? Tiaras, tabloids, and ticker tape? Chewing gum, checked suits, charged water...
...Berlin, the Welt Am Abend, radical sheet, snarled: "Next week the Mayor of New York, Jazz Walker, ally of" Fuller [Governor of Massachusetts] intends to visit Berlin. The gentleman should turn back. He wants to be received here Wednesday. We do not receive murderers...
Thus ended the 18-day tour (TIME, Aug. 1 et seq.) of the first British Prime Minister ever to visit the Dominion of Canada while in office...