Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...favorite method has involved two men as confederates from Boston hotels and bars where they meet students. After one man has made a contact he tries to visit the student in his room and sometimes is allowed to stay over night. Then a few days after his departure, the confederate comes to Cambridge and takes any articles which have been selected by the first man. The pairs seem to work in Cambridge for three or four months and then disappear to show up in Princeton, New Haven, or some other college center...
...Woodrow Wilson was an ardent theatregoer. Franklin Roosevelt prefers to have movies in the White House, but one evening last week he dressed up and went out to see Walter Huston and Fay Bainter in Dodsworth. It was his second visit to the theatre since March...
...propose," he intoned, "that our girls be obliged by a law which I now propose to the Senate to wear a distinctive dress until they reach the age of consent, fixed at 18 years." Upon any Irishman caught sporting with a colleen thus dressed, Senator Moore proposed to visit drastic punishment...
Early Sunday morning a buoyant, almost jovial, man stepped off the 20th Century Limited in New York's Grand Central Terminal, consented to be photographed, refused to be interviewed, hurried through the almost deserted lobby. A handful of commuters recognized Herbert Hoover, clapped, cheered. On his first visit East since he left the White House, Citizen Hoover came to attend his first meeting as a director of New York Life Insurance...
...bewildered Mother Dionne from "Mother Schumann-Heink." Geraldine Farrar, long the high-spirited pet of the Met, has also turned to radio. Sedately she describes the doings on the stage where once she ruled. Mary Garden was resting in Manhattan last week after her Debussy lecture-recitals and a visit to Sing Sing...