Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dump. As a result, it is easy to understand why Professor Rand feels that Latin is an essential part of a gentleman's education. It explains too, why so many of the Faculty join him in his attempt to retain the classics requirement. If motorists did not desire to visit new and fast growing settlements of learning, there would be no need to leave this main artery for the unexplored paths...
...this Bolshevik toast Mr. Eden, who, after all. is not Britain's Foreign Secretary, cautiously replied: "My visit is purely exploratory and not to negotiate. . . . After my return from Moscow, Warsaw and Prague there will be further consultations between the Foreign Secretaries of the United Kingdom, France and Italy at Stresa. ... I raise my glass to the happiness and prosperity of the peoples of this great country, to the President of the All-Union Central Executive Committee [Comrade Kalinin, puppet 'Soviet President'] and, Monsieur Litvinoff, to your very good health...
...close to the Realmleader has a really loose tongue. Last week it was wagging wildly in Nurnberg where bald, barrel-chested Julius Streicher styles himself "Leader of the Franks" and pays scant respect to Prussia or Berlin. On his soth birthday lately he received the accolade of a personal visit from Adolf Hitler who declared: "There is one man on whose wholehearted support I can depend in every situation and who has never wavered one second, Julius Streicher...
Last week Secretary of War Dern went to Philadelphia to help celebrate the 17th anniversary of the establishment of that city's Ordnance Department, view an exhibit of armament in Reyburn Plaza opposite the City Hall. By the time the Secretary's visit was over he had been made thoroughly conscious of militant pacifism as practiced by Philadelphia Quakers. When he arrived at the Bellevue Stratford Hotel to speak at a dinner, he found young Quakers picketing the street, bearing placards such as: WAR IS ALWAYS WRONG and ARMAMENTS REPRESENT DEATH TO YOU BUT DIVIDENDS TO THE PRIVATE...
Osborne changed with years and it is easy to understand how Chamberlain might have fallen to such sentimental depths. There was a fair for adventure in his make-up that made the mayor of Auburn dress as a tramp, ride the rails and visit music halls. For balance there was an unobtrusive charity that helped dozens of now prominent actors, business men, and artists...