Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week A. L. P.'s were the only party headquarters to receive a post-election visit from Mayor LaGuardia. Posing with Leaders Rose and Antonini with a copy of Lawyer Ernst's Supreme Court book, The Ultimate Power, clasped in his chubby hand, His Honor was the very picture of a modern labor-loving mayor. That he was A. L. P.'s mayor any more than he was Fusion's or the Republicans', however, Fiorello LaGuardia denied in one of his explosive bursts of advice: "Your party is clean now and has lofty principles...
King George confirmed that the King of the Belgians will pay him a State visit in November, announced that King Carol of Rumania had been invited to pay him a State visit next spring. "I am looking forward with interest and pleasure" said His Majesty "to the time when it will be possible for me to visit my Indian Empire. ... I pray that under the blessing of Almighty God the outcome of your deliberations may advance the happiness and well-being of my people and the peace of the world...
...months later, Dr. McGlynn willingly made the visit to Rome which previously had been demanded in vain. He had a friendly talk with Leo XIII, remarked that he could not stay long in Rome, to which the Pope calmly replied: "As you tell of your necessities, I of course cannot oppose your wishes...
When Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart made his first visit to Italy, at 14, he heard a soprano called La Bastardella sing an "unbelievable" C in altissimo, an octave above the C in alt (high C) which is the difficult top of many a soprano's reach. Later in his Magic Flute, Mozart wrote for the Queen of Night-one of the most difficult coloratura soprano roles sung today-nothing higher than F in alt, or three and one-half tones below C in altissimo. Less than a century after Mozart's death, Jenny Lind produced effortless...
...Depression and is now a $30,000,000-a-year industry based squarely on theft but supporting a sizable chunk of his State's population in a manner to which it has become thoroughly accustomed. The coal' leggers rumble ominously about "human rights." After a personal visit to the bootleg fields last year, Governor Earle appointed a five-man Anthracite Commission to find an answer...