Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Miss Lowell's first poem, "Chicago," written at the age of nine, following a visit to that city in 1883, is shown in the original manuscript, pencilled in a small, childishly smudged journal...
...55th birthday (Jan. 30), Franklin Roosevelt, who now hopes to visit Warm Springs in March, broadcast to his annual birthday balls in cities throughout the nation his thanks for the nation's response to 1) the Red Cross $10.000.000 flood relief fund, 2) the infantile paralysis benefit for which the balls are held...
...British Empire for her nationwide campaign to provide cheaply pain-deadening drugs to British mothers in childbirth. Of six new baronetcies two were awarded to onetime Actor Sir Derwent Hall Caine, son of Author Hall Caine, and Percy Malcolm Stewart, who lately accompanied Edward VIII on his visit to South Wales (TIME...
...years) that most Court officials who knew how all the little details of a Coronation have to be managed, had preceded Her Majesty to the grave. Some $25.000 was spent by the Howards doing over and refurnishing apartments in one of their castles to be occupied on a brief visit of Queen Victoria, and the present Duke treasures in a glass case the parting gift to his late father bestowed by Her Majesty. This is a small, blue-glass bottle with stopper-intrinsic value perhaps...
...Captain Ernest Clegg, a British company commander on the Western Front, went to London on leave. While there, he was invited to visit his old friend Captain Kiddle of the dreadnought Revenge, which was anchored with the rest of the British Grand Fleet in Scapa Flow. Mrs. Clegg thought it would be a nice change for her husband, packed him off to Scotland. An hour after Captain Kiddle welcomed his guest on his quarterdeck, the Grand Fleet steamed out on emergency orders and the Battle of Jutland, greatest modern naval engagement...