Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Making his first visit to Boston since his arrival in this country, Count George Potocki, Polish Ambassador to the United States will be entertained today by officials of the University...
...held his peace on one topic, he spoke out boldly on another of national concern: the upward spiral of commodity prices. He was visited by Fiorello LaGuardia of New York City, spokesman for other U. S. mayors, who protested a new PWA rule which requires all of the Federal grants for Public Works projects to be spent on relief labor. This was followed by a visit from a delegation of the House of Representatives who wanted to appropriate $300,000,000 more for PWA, which now has only $155,000,000 left to spend. To both, Franklin Roosevelt answered...
...Insignificance. As an official visit without any official purpose, Lord Tweeds-muir's stop in Washington was a kaleidoscope of glittering but insignificant formalities. The Governor-General had come with his aides-de-camp and his wife with her lady-in-waiting, Mrs. George Pape. They were met at the Canadian border by Richard Southgate, chief of the State Department's Division of Protocol, and by additional military and naval aides supplied by the U. S. They were met again at Washington's Union Station by Secretary of State Hull, by the U. S. Minister to Canada...
...began his public career as private secretary to Lord Milner in South Africa, and served eight years as a British M. P., had met no more persuasive politician, than Franklin Roosevelt, or as a literary man, no more engaging listener. The result of the Governor-General's visit is, therefore, that when Britons of the world assemble next month for their Coronation, there will be not one but two gentlemen present - Lord Tweedsmuir as well as Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King - who have recently visited the White House and are ready to tell the Empire what a fine fellow...
...wisps of cloud, shone out with serenity, with severity, or perhaps with complete indifference. Slowly wheeling, like the rays of a searchlight, the days, the weeks, the years passed one after another across the sky." On a spring day in 1880 Colonel Pargiter leaves his club to pay a visit to his cockney mistress, then home to his family: his bedridden, dying wife, his children...