Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...England as a traveling salesman, today His Excellency Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff, roly-poly Foreign Minister of Soviet Russia. Smarter than "Maxie" they do not come. Knowing perfectly well that every member of the British ruling classes hates him and Stalin, Comrade Litvinoff stage-managed Captain Eden's visit in a way to win reluctant sympathy for Bolshevikland and turn the tables against Nazidom...
Artist Shinn now explains his story as follows: He and his one-eyed friend, following a brief visit on the statue's hat brim, moved inside the head & shoulders for greater comfort. Seeing the old man busily occupied astride William Penn's armpit, Artist Shinn asked what he was doing. "Writing a letter to posterity," the friend replied, and promptly fell down into the Penn elbow. With some difficulty Artist Shinn extricated...
Referring to the visit of himself and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval to London two months ago, the Premier continued: "We outlined a preventive policy ... to resume at Geneva the discussion of disarmament, and it is at this moment that Germany chooses to declare that she is threatened! By whom can she imagine she is threatened? . . " A .travesty of Truth! ... A denial of law and justice. . . . France hates...
...Catholic authorities gave in, allowed Brother Andre to purchase, with funds donated, a plot opposite the college, build a small wooden kiosk. By this time superstitious folk believed a story that Brother Andre had visited the Archbishop of Montreal, convinced him of his supernatural powers by paralyzing the prelate's limbs. Devout Catholics gave more & more money which enabled Brother Andre to build first a small chapel, then a bigger one, finally, with $2,000,000, to begin work on a great Oratory of St. Joseph. This building, which will eventually cost some $6,000,000, is planned...
Despite French and Italian troop movements to the borders and the recent flare-up over Lithuanian treatment of Nazi agitators, European nations have settled into a state of suspended animation, largely due to Sir John Simon's visit to Germany. Again Britain, much to the dissatisfaction of her former allies, is playing her historic role of mediator and preserver of the balance of power. One of the most favorable signs in the present imbroglio has been the enthusiastic reception given by the German populace to Britain's part as the "honest broker...