Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt's party for wayward girls is revolting to any woman, but to a Southerner, unthinkable. Surely attention could have been brought to the plight of these young women (I don't call 20-year-olds children!) in a less public manner. A visit to the White House should be preserved as a reward for more worthy groups of young people...
...Both here and in Harar, to which this correspondent has just paid a two days' visit, tension between the British and Italians is high. For the writer this ill feeling represents the most disturbing thought he is taking away with...
Most notable visitors of the week were those whom Mrs. Roosevelt entertained on the South Lawn after the President departed on his week end yachting trip on the Potomac on the Potomac. Fortnight ago Mrs. Roosevelt, in her syndicated newspaper column, told of her visit to the National Training School for Girls, the District of Columbia's lock-up for female delinquents. Dr. Carrie Weaver Smith, new superintendent who recently induced Congress to appropriate $100,000 for the School, also induced Mrs. Roosevelt to visit it. In My Day, the First Lady wrote...
...more ashamed than I can say that this is my first visit...
...announced him [Sir Alfred] and showed him in. Mr. Thomas to the best of my recollection said he was frightfully busy and could not see him. The visit did not last more than a minute or a minute and a half at the most. I was in the room holding the door, ready to close...