Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Press these explanations of the advent of the most potent Catholic prelate ever to take ship for New York were decidedly inadequate. Only a visit from His Holiness himself could be of greater import to U. S. Catholics. To make sense of Cardinal Pacelli's trip, secular gossips worked overtime, evolved several theories: The Cardinal, perhaps, was being dispatched to Washington to negotiate a resumption of diplomatic relations between the U. S. and the Vatican, breached in 1867 when Congress, foreseeing the end of the Papal State's temporal power, stopped appropriating money to maintain a minister...
...special salon railway car at Aberdeen and set out for London, it being announced by the Sunday Referee that the wild strains of Hungarian gypsy music will soon be heard in Buckingham Palace. King Edward, in addition to inviting Turkish Dictator Mustafa Kamâl Atatürk to visit him in London, has also, according to the Referee, invited Koez Antal, "Hungary's Most Famous Gypsy Bandmaster,'' to give a concert for His Majesty's dinner guests at Buckingham Palace. That Mrs. Simpson was traveling with the King was officially announced by the Court Circular...
Piccadilly Jim (TIME, Aug. 31), was the first of Author Wodehouse's books to receive adequate screen adaptation. That the cinema has never properly utilized his work is a misfortune which may soon be corrected. Five years ago, after his first professional visit to Hollywood, Author Wodehouse expressed remorse for having "cheated" his employers (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) by accepting $104,000 for a year's work which consisted of "touching up" two stories. Last week, accompanied by Mrs. Wodehouse, two Pekinese, and a new typewriter to replace the 25-year-old one on which he had written...
Haydn's Symphony in B fiat major No. 102 is the first number. Composed during the winter of 1794-95 while Haydn was on his second visit to London, the symphony exhibits both a wealth of eighteenth century charm and a real developed orchestration. It is not without a certain justification that with such a work as this to his credit, Haydn is often known as the father of the symphony...
...Agreed to visit a house in Canonbury, through which the ghost of a murdered man was said to be stalking nightly...