Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bright and early in the morning the three adventurers swam in the country club pool, visited local homespun weavers, motored 40 miles down over the mountains to visit their confrères, Misses Vance and Vale (Tryon Toy Makers) who for a generation have been teaching wood carving to the hillbillies of Polk County...
...Simmons Bed broadcast, lunched with Rufus Dawes & wife, went to the Fair, smiled her broadest at newshawks when she told them: "Please don't feel badly if I have to evade you, because that's what I'm going to do from now on. This is not an official visit. When I'm with the President it's different." Bobbing up five hours later in front of the Fair's Administration Building, Mrs. Roosevelt was asked by reporters for the rest of her itinerary. "From now on," the First Lady twitted them, "it's a game of hide-&-seek...
Hoch Siam! Hoch Siam! To take German minds off what the Chancellor was hatching every newsorgan in the Fatherland was ordered to play up as biggest news of the week a royal visit to President von Hindenburg by weak-eyed little King Prajadhipok of Siam and his equally short but amply curvesome Queen Rambui Barni. Oscar and the other venerable storks of East Prussia had not seen such pomp since Kaiser Wilhelm's day. Two private cars of the German State Railways sped Their Majesties out from Berlin, across the hated Polish Corridor (an emotional barrier...
...King Zog, the Italian squadron of 19 war boats entered the Albanian harbor of Durazzo and cast anchor. Scared Albanians begged particulars which Admiral Cantu, somewhat embarrassed, seemed unable to give. "The relations between Italy and Albania are so friendly," he asserted, "that there is nothing unusual about our visit, sudden though...
...them was well off, none really had room in his home or time in his life for two superannuated grasshoppers who had not seen the winter coming. By the harsh terms of the compromise Father and Mother Cooper, married half a century, would have to leave each other, "visit" their children separately for three months at a time...