Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Immediately preceding this visit [to the United States] the former King and his wife .. . visited Nazi Germany...
...announced tonight on behalf of the Duke of Windsor that he has decided to postpone his visit to America...
...anti-Comintern Pact is so loose that last week's pen squiggling in Rome was little more than a gesture, less important than Mussolini's visit to Hitler (TIME, Oct. 4), but a gesture timed to come on Bolshevism's Birthday...
Study. Oxford's famed tutorial system, now assiduously being copied in U. S. universities, permits undergraduates to cut lectures, requires only that they visit their tutors once a week and pass an examination twice a year. Pupils usually read essays on their reading to their tutors. One pupil, Briant relates, passed his essays, with the marginal criticisms of his tutor, along to his successors. Thereafter "the complacent Fellow sat in his armchair, agreeably engrossed in his own problems, while year after year different pupils read him the same essays." The Briant conclusions: Not more than 20% of Oxford...
...people squirm. To the fastidious world of Mayfair, however, Photographer Beaton's delicate infusions of the cockeyed into the swank have long seemed divine. After a gala summer, including a trip to Cande to make exclusive portraits for Vogue of his friend the Duchess of Windsor and a visit to his friend Mrs. Harrison ("Best Dressed") Williams at her villa on Capri, slim Cecil Beaton was in Manhattan this week a-tiptoe for the U. S. publication of his Scrapbook.) ± Sure to grace drawing rooms wherever there are bright young things, this rococo collection displays not only smart...