Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that 53,000 egg-rolling youngsters were trampling down the fine green turf of the White House lawn, 4,000 of their elders were exploring the marble corridors of the new Supreme Courthouse. Little did many of them know beforehand of the momentous things that might happen during their visit. Little did they know when something did happen, for the courtroom was too small to admit more than a fraction of their number. But the connoisseurs knew and were present. Stanley Reed, Robert H. Jackson and James W. Morris, top-flight attorneys of the Department of Justice...
Having just arrived from England with its mists, he was immensely pleased with the "clear air" here. "Exceptionally beautifully weather!" he exulted. The real joy of his visit, though, is the swimming pool in the Indoor Athletic Building, about which he was enthusiastic. "You know, I love swimming...
...mover in Mongokuo's "independence movement," and Dictator Chiang Kai-shek's Bogieman No. 1, last week was triple-chinned Mongol Prince Teh, who for months past has dominated Mongokuo under Japan's aegis. Exclaimed a Chinese traveler, just returned to Shanghai after a six-month visit to Mongokuo: "I am astonished that the world has not heard of this new state!" For months Mongokuo has had a de facto government, headed by Prince Teh, together with an army of some 10,000 Mongolians and Manchukuoans officered and commanded by Japanese. Governmental departments are headed by Mongols...
...twelve Federal Reserve Banks, Mr. Eccles issued a resounding statement "to correct erroneous interpretations" of his ideas on how to control inflation. It is no secret that Chairman Eccles is alarmed by the current trend of Recovery, particularly the dizzy rise in commodity prices. And after a visit to the White House last fortnight, the Government bond market broke wide-open (TIME, March 22). Hence, the natural assumption last week was that the Reserve Board might be ready to let interest rates seek a higher level. Said Mr. Eccles in correction...
...whinny...like a young colt in distress." Sylvia Pankhurst, famed ex-suffraget leader, gave McKay a job reporting for her Workers' Dreadnought. Back in New York he became associate editor of The Liberator under Eastman, quarreled with the Reddest of his colleagues, received an office visit from Elinor Wylie, whose "beauty and Park Avenue elegance" flustered him terribly. At Eugen Boissevain's house he met Charlie Chaplin, who was chased one evening from room to room by a determined Harlem female admirer "coo-coo-cooing, just as if she were down home in the bushes." When a long...