Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even after all these things are arranged General Denain's work in Italy will not be finished. On Lake Garda Benito Mussolini operates the finest training school for high-speed flying in the world. His official visit ended. Air Minister Denain will spend several days at this and other Italian training schools to see if there are any new wrinkles to be picked up to teach his own blue-clad cadets...
Southwest Africa. London took the Liberia idea calmly. But not Premier Hertzog's suggestion of giving up Southwest Africa and Tanganyika. Recently back from his visit to Adolf Hitler, Foreign Minister Sir John Simon rose in the House of Commons last week, said...
...Agitated was a Tokyo visit of the 65 five-to-nine-year-old moppets of Kansas City's famed ''Toy Symphony Orchestra," children whose tootling might soothe Japanese breasts and help spread happy impressions of Japan when they returned to Missouri...
Although all men who visit this holy place grow beards because there is not water enough to shave in, our professor, who stands six feet seven inches in his stocking feet and carries some three hundred and nine pounds, made bold to ask the archbishop if he could take a bath. Through gratitude or fear of this man mountain, the archbishop murmured a Greek Orthodox assent through his archiepiscopal beard...
...events of "the Forty-five" leading up to the bloody collapse at Culloden, Author Mackenzie tells little, concentrates on the loyal heroism of Prince Charlie's protectors after the battle, when redcoats combed the country for him. One of his hostesses, Anne Macintosh, on a visit to London three years after, found herself dancing with the Duke of Cumberland (known to all good Jacobites as "the Butcher of Culloden"). The first dance over, she asked if she might choose the air for the second, called for The Auld Stuarts Back Again...