Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only peer in Britain entitled to own a private army, led the way at the head of a troop of Scottish Horse on shaggy Highland ponies. The joggling troops wore the same khaki uniforms, slouch hats and black cocks' feathers worn in 1903 during the post-coronation visit of Edward VII. From Edinburgh Castle on its crag above the city 21 guns roared in royal salute...
...poles apart." From England, Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh flew to Dinan, Brittany, then drove a hired auto to the coast. When no power boat met him he paddled a quarter of a mile in a collapsible rubber boat to little St. Gildas Island to visit his friend and colleague, Dr. Alexis Carrel...
This ceremonial visit served as an excellent curtain for a tremendous amount of dickering with European bigwigs. Swinging through Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia, Italy, France and Belgium, Dr. Kung was everywhere given the sort of excessively cordial reception he loves. This was because China's credit is better now than it has been for years and because Europe, notably Germany, desperately needs a market for exports. China's credit is currently high because Dr. Kung has begun to make good on a number of defaulted foreign loans, promises to take care of them all. Hitler, Göring...
Most likely immediate prospects were an August bout between Louis and Jack Doyle, a September bout between Braddock, with whom Promoter Jacobs also has an exclusive contract, and Max Baer. While the confusion about his ring activities continued. Champion Louis went home to visit his mother in Detroit where he got a report that his father, a onetime Alabama cotton picker, missing for the last 22 years and long given up for dead, had been discovered in the Alabama State Asylum, where he had been since 1915. one year after Joe Louis' birth. Said Champion Louis...
Many an expansive toper, eager to visit a sick, old, or girl friend, has hired a taxi for an inter-city journey. Sober folk also occasionally take long cab trips. Spinster Catherine Bruen of Brewster, N. Y. has made two round-trip taxi rides to Bellingham, Wash. Homeward-bound from Mexico City last week were 76-year-old Emily Curtis Fisher of Norwood and three other Massachusetts ladies who chartered a sedan and driver from Jack's Taxi Service for the journey. Extraordinary as these treks may seem, they were topped by a trip which last week ended...