Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dexter scholarships were established in 1922 from the bequest of Annie L. Dexter in memory of her father, Charles Dexter, to encourage young men to "to study profoundly the English language," and to enable them "to visit Oxford and Cambridge in England, or the cathedral towns in England...
...Having signed the second deficiency bill appropriating $82,000,000, chiefly for TVA, and authorizing that body to start work on a new $112,000,000 dam at Gilbertsville, Ky., Franklin Roosevelt last week packed himself off to spend Memorial Day with his mother at Hyde Park, his first visit with her in four months...
...string of Hollywood scenes calculated to spotlight Haley and Kelly in their inoffensive cutups. Taken to a nightclub by Lopez, Cecilia and Nellie see Joe, employed as a waiter, pretend that he is a performer, stumble into a bit of clowning which costs him his job. On a visit to a studio, they watch Lyda Roberti undulate, meet Laurel & Hardy who burlesque handsomely as mustached Mexican bandits. While Nellie casually knocks out Laurel & Hardy with a champagne bottle, Rinaldo snakes Cecilia away to his apartment where he starts to seduce her with the aid of an Indian love charm...
With surprising gumption Dr. Schuschnigg said no. Subsequently he was understood to have learned that France and Britain were finally willing to support him with something more than fine words. It was to prevent Hungary from following this uncomfortable lead that last week's visit was arranged. There were peasant processions, State dinners, and the director of the Budapest museum gave little Vittorio Emanuele three small silver coins to add to his numismatic collection...
...first four months of 1937 Thomas J. Lipton, Inc. shows a net profit of $321,598, which the company deprecates as the usual seasonal business is always followed by a decline in the last half of the year. One thing Sir George Schuster did on his tie-strengthening visit was to approve a $1,000,000 Lipton advertising campaign, biggest since 1929, planned by husky, friendly William Wigmore Shannon, general manager of the U. S. company...