Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grant an audience to the visitors and chat with them for a while. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs planned the available time to the best advantage and other organizations, such as the Touring Club of France and the Automobile Club, co-operated to add to the enjoyment of the visit...
...absolute freedom and unrestraint of the type which should characterize any real effort at good will between the youth of two nations. Moreover, not only were the ancient glories of France displayed to the visitors but an intimate view was also given of the modern France. There was a visit to the Manufacture de Sevres where the famous porcelain wares are turned out; a tour of the Le Printemps, which is a leading department store; and an excursion to the Renault motor car factory...
Halliburton, who graduated front Princeton with the class of '21, attributes the star of his adventurous career to an overwhelming desire to visit distant lands and to find unusual subjects for narrative stories. He believes in the extraordinary in travel and has numbered among his stunts in far-off places everything from swimming at midnight in the sacred pool of the Taj Mahal to crossing the Alps by elephant in the footsteps of Hannibal. "While on my travels I live in the time of 5 B.C., the modern world then means little to me," he stated...
...custom of crucifying their human sacrifices. By 1896 Britain had already established control of the coast of Nigeria, was eager to trade with forbidden Benin in the interior. Acting Consul General Phillips, eager to hurry matters, sent a message to grinning black King Overami of Benin, asking permission to visit his capital, arrange a treaty. With the messenger the Briton sent the traditional present: a bottle of gin, a piece of cloth, a walking stick. King Overami appreciated the gin, but sent word that it would be unwise for a white man to come at that time...
...Detroiters crawled out of bed to attend. For a similar service this year attendance jumped, in Editor Gilmore's reckoning, by "two and a half acres" of people. When that alert local preacher named Edgar DeWitt Jones volunteered as Column Chaplain and invited Column Folks to visit his church in alphabetical sections, the church overflowed on four successive Sundays. Some 10,000 readers turned out when Nancy Brown's Column presented the Art Institute with a painting called Street in Brooklyn last year. Column Folks have also contributed to the Detroit Old Newsboys' Charitable Goodfellow Fund, sponsored...