Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mary's Hospital or anywhere else. On the day that the Press published the President's formal itinerary, including a visit to Minnesota's Governor at Rochester, Floyd Olson moaned, "Don't worry, it's for the best," lapsed into a coma, died...
...most famed cubist painting in the world is Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase, which now hangs in the Hollywood home of Walter Conrad Arensberg. Last week Los An-geles newshawks discovered the artist on the same premises. France's Duchamp, 49, was making his first visit to California to see once again the picture that established his reputation...
...Standish were sold in London in a single day, and 24 English publishers brought out Longfellow's work in competition. Simple, sweet, one of the most learned men of his time. Longfellow welcomed callers who ranged from English tourists who intruded "because there were no American ruins to visit" to such strangers as Bakunin. the Russian an archist who, invited to lunch, invited himself to dinner as well...
...pious uncle who soon goes to a Mental Home for Clergymen. Befriended by the fashionable Mrs. Molly, Ben is sent off to school, studies for the ministry, is disgraced in his snobbish surroundings when cranky Miserable Sarah leaves her home in the village of Dirty Gut to visit...
Climax of Ben's life occurs when he falls in love with a queen. Ruler of a small country famed for its tyranny, she is on a visit arranging a loan; Ben meets her by accident while she is sneaking a last cigaret before a state reception begins. Although the Queen, in manner, speech and display of her girlish charms, has a good deal in common with less elevated wenches, Ben is straightway transported by his love to the isles of enchantment. At a house party with her he makes a romantic fool of himself before her worldly companions...