Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...logic in its position as a man 'talking reason' with a high-strung woman. . . . Nippon, the most feminine-minded nation, may yet accomplish what Alexander, Caesar, Genghiz, Charlemagne, Napoleon and Kaiser Wilhelm II failed to accomplish." Far Eastern Front by Edgar Snow (Smith & Haas, $3.75) "A visit to India, to Japan, to the Philippines, leaves you suddenly with the conviction that in many obscure but important ways the Chinese people are far in advance of Eastern men elsewhere, and that in them ultimately and inevitably resides the cultural leadership of Asia. . . . Two years of undeclared war with Japan...
...original worthlessness of the Soviet pledge accepted by President Roosevelt. The issue of what the President is going to do about it was considered so grave that Ambassador William Christian Bullitt, who had planned to be away from Moscow during the Congress of the Comintern, canceled arrangements to visit Odessa with his 11-year-old daughter Anne, remained at his post to listen and report to Washington...
Grand Duke Boris said Newport society was the most luxurious he had ever seen. His visit brought to a head the quarrel between Mrs. Goelet and Mrs. Fish, who were fighting over young Jimmie Cutting. Mrs. Goelet entertained the Grand Duke at her home. Mrs. Fish invited guests to meet the Grand Duke at a dinner and ball, but refused to include Jimmie Cutting. Mrs. Goelet demanded that he be invited. Mrs. Fish refused. Mrs. Goelet therefore would not let the Grand Duke attend the Fish party given in his honor. Unwilling to disappoint guests anxious to see royalty, Harry...
...Life with Father, chosen by the Book-of-the-Month Club, gave readers a more detailed account of existence in a well-to-do broker's family in a settled and serene period of U. S. history. For young Clarence Day it was a great treat to visit his father's dusty Wall Street office on Saturday mornings, riding to work on the steam-driven Sixth Avenue Elevated, watching his father salute acquaintances by touching cane to ilk hat brim. He listened to bewhiskered brokers fuming about the proposal of the Knights of Labor for an eight-hour...
...Life with Father, chosen by the Book-of-the-Month Club, gave readers a more detailed account of existence in a well-to-do broker's family in a settled and serene period of U. S. history. For young Clarence Day it was a great treat to visit his father's dusty Wall Street office on Saturday mornings, riding to work on the steam-driven Sixth Avenue Elevated, watching his father salute acquaintances by touching cane to ilk hat brim. He listened to bewhiskered brokers fuming about the proposal of the Knights of Labor for an eight-hour...