Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...something about the Houses would be to allow him the privilege of taking several meals in the various units during the second half year upon the invitation of some resident. If the Freshmen were allowed to take fourteen meals in the Houses this would give them an opportunity to visit each twice. The difference of eight dollars and eight dollars and a half in the board charges at the Union and the Houses only means a loss of two cents a meal and only a maximum of a few hundred dollars during the year. It is an investment that would...
...week. Chief beneficiary was Under Secretary of Agriculture Rexford Guy Tugwell whom the President, driving his own car, met at the railroad station, took home for luncheon, took for a swim, conferred with at length. A jolly time they had together, and on the second day of the Tugwell visit the President drove him and Mrs. Roosevelt to see an erosion control project on his 1,700-acre farm at nearby Pine Mountain...
...ordered Mrs. Whitney to continue the child's schooling, maintain her "in a manner suitable to her fortune" ($2,800,000), provide a Roman Catholic governess who would instruct her in her mother's faith.* Gloria should never be taken out of New York State. She should visit her mother every week from 10 a. m. Saturday to sundown Sunday, the entire month of July and from 10 a. m. to 6 p. m. on Christmas Day. This arrangement should continue until Gloria was 21 unless any party concerned should meantime show the Court good cause for change...
...These gentlemen are friends I have from time to time invited to visit me. It so happens that this was the most convenient time they could all get together. Their presence has no political or industrial significance whatever...
When Gertrude Stein's Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas appeared last year, readers discovered to their surprise that Author Stein could write plain, understandable English. When she landed in the U.S. last month for her first visit in 31 years, newshawks and newsreel audiences were further chagrined at her shrewd and sensible remarks (TIME, Nov. 5). Even listeners at her strictly limited lectures understood more than half of what she said. But the publication of Portraits and Prayers made it plain that in the Autobiography, in her public appearances. Author Stein had merely been showing off. When...