Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such was the notice which appeared last week in the entry of a remodeled apartment house at No. 23 Barrow st., Manhattan. Men strange to the janitor had indeed been climbing the stairs to visit the new tenants of Apartment 4 C. The visitors were the intelligentsia of Greenwich Village. But the most important visitor the janitor had not seen. His name was Edward Bellamy and he had been dead 36 years...
...Curzon] knew I should be obliged to have full stable equipment almost immediately on account of the royal visit, and thus held a pistol at my head-a matter of between seven and eight thousand pounds...
...Sibelius now working on his Eighth Symphony is bald, rotund, 68. He lives in a rambling two-story house in Jarvenpaa, 20 miles from Helsingfors. When U.S. tourists visit him he will tell them that he was never a prodigy, that he dislikes Wagner and physical exercise, loves Johann Strauss waltzes, once taught briefly at the New England Conservatory in Boston-and that no visitors are admitted to the second-floor studio where he does all his work...
...kept her late brother's only daughter on her 3,000-acre estate at Old Westbury, L. I. while his widow occupied herself in smart European resorts. Last September, settled in a house in Manhattan, Mrs. Vanderbilt had little Gloria brought in from the country for a visit. The child became so overwrought at separation from Mrs. Whitney that her nurse whisked her back to her aunt. Thereupon, with a disregard of privacy which shocked her in-laws, Mrs. Reginald Vanderbilt practically charged her sister-in-law with kidnapping and instituted habeas corpus proceedings to obtain possession...
This meeting is another expression of indignation by a group of undergraduates who consider the treatment of the Karlsruhe and Hanfstaengl prisoners unfair. Last Monday two delegations made an unsuccessful visit to District Attorney Foley to ask him to drop charges against the Karlsruhe demonstrators...