Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...true that Britain is at present refusing visas to U. S. newspaper reporters, who wish to visit Palestine, where Arabs and Jews are disputing a mutual homeland? And India where frontier battles have been steadily hushed...
...required to make any promises to the British Government regarding comments on conditions in Palestine and India. When I applied for visas, British passport officers and British Consul General, New York City, told me that special permission was required for newspapermen to visit Palestine and India. I then explained I was planning a rapid journey around the world and obviously halts would be so brief that it would be impossible for me to undertake anything but superficial surveys of situations. The passport officer immediately, upon learning the nature of my journey, cooperated to the utmost...
...explained by a misunderstanding as to the working of that system, which many felt was just one more check-up in addition to the restrictions of the old rules. The Oxford System prescribes no other restriction than the registration of both the student and his guest before the visit and a corresponding "checking-out" after the visit. The hours when visiting is allowed are limited by University officials...
...last week's end the austere, astute Papal Secretary of State concluded what he called his month's "vacation," set sail for Italy. If there was anything deeply significant in his visit, the U. S. press, slickly and amiably handled by the Cardinal from start to finish, had not printed it. In the Vatican best opinion remained that he had gone to the U. S. primarily to see and be seen by as many as possible of the hierarchy which shepherd 20,000,000 Catholics. But, though Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli would be grievously offended were it mentioned...
...Kirkland, to visit H . . . , where a little refreshment soon raised heavy hearts to dwell on matters more pleasant than the football match. Soon into my party clothes and with F . . . to dine at Leverett. How the spirit of the navy has worked changes! Lighthouses in the Leverett windows and salty coils of rope dangling from the music platform. On with the dance till midnight curfew told us we were indeed yet in Boston and must still pay homage to the Puritan. Back in the tower, warm with the dance and warmer with the wine, to fall back and dream...