Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...preaching team was present. In Seattle 8,000 people crowded the Civic Auditorium while 5,000 were turned away. In Chicago 30,000 attended a series of meetings in the Loop district; in Philadelphia the Mission lunched with Mayor S. Davis Wilson and city officials during a three-day visit attracting 20,000 listeners. In St. Louis the Globe-Democrat issued daily supplements detailing Mission activities and one young man declared that the team's appearance had dissuaded him from suicide. Everywhere Missionary Jones was the headline speaker, driving home repeatedly his message to the effect that: "Religion...
...Louder!" cried the floor brokers, most of whom had not the faintest idea why Al Smith had decided to pay them a visit. President Gay then made a welcoming speech but that, too, was lost in the Exchange's vasty spaces. "Louder! Louder!" shouted the brokers as Mr. Smith began to ask for hospital contributions. Desperate, officials ordered all Exchange machinery stopped for the duration of the Smith remarks. "This is the last place to explain that in the past six years we have been passing through a world-wide depression," rumbled the once Happy Warrior...
Athletic Director James Lynah has invited to visit him at his Georgia plantation the week after next the athletic directors from Columbia, Dartmouth, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Yale. There can be no doubt but that Ivy League plans will be foremost among the topics discussed at that time. And is certainly hoped that the results of this meeting will point toward the speedy adoption of definite Ivy League plans along the lines suggested in yesterday's editorial...
...grave, well-preserved, attentive woman who said politely that she had heard he was rich and successful. They exchanged formal comments about their careers, and the self-conscious traveler, feeling a little ridiculous and more concerned than ever about the prestige of the white race, hurried on to visit Java, Bali, Sumatra, Macassar, and other island haunts with the passionate absorption of a middle-aged romantic who had set out in quest of his youth, found it and decided it had not amounted to much...
...that left him looking dolefully on the modern world and suffering from an understandable fatigue. Readers of those two books who have come to expect from Bruce Lockhart well-bred accounts of international intrigue are likely to be disappointed with Return to Malaya. It is a record of his visit, with funds that the success of British Agent provided, to the Eastern Islands where he had spent three years as a young...