Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thirteen leading scientists have been appointed by the Board of Overseers to four committees which will visit the Engineering School, and three other scientific departments. The members have been chosen "because of their interest in the success and usefulness of the department to be visited...
...journalistic fraternity of Sigma Delta Chi meeting last week in Chicago, its honorary president, Editor Marlen Edwin Pew of Editor & Publisher, spoke on "Editorial Criticism as a Constructive Influence in Public Affairs." After deploring the censorships of Mussolini, Stalin and Hitler, Editor Pew told of a recent visit to the White House by a group of U. S. newsmen. Said Editor Pew: "I heard the President say that he was dumbfounded by the almost unanimous support given to his program by the American Press. . . . He said, 'But there is a fly in the ointment, gentlemen. Where is your criticism...
...evening, borrows Woodrow Wilson's top hat, Mussolini's sponge-bag trousers and with some advice given by Landru, the wife-murderer, sets off to the assignation. Some French generals hear of the resurrection, insist that the Little Corporal make all Europe French. After a visit to a disarmament conference, a few experiences with radios and telephones, Napoleon goes back to the wax works in disgust. All this is handled with the worst direction, the most inexpert acting (including that of Miss Ulric) and the shabbiest mise en scene now observable on Broadway...
...bound for Chicago, taxied up to the passenger depot for loading. The passenger list was unusually small. There was a trim young woman who, flushed with excitement, confided in the pilot that she had missed the previous plane and had to be in Reno next morning "to visit her sister." (It turned out that she was to be married next day.) And there was a middle-aged man named Emil Smith, a retired grocer. Mr. Smith caused the Negro porter at the depot some concern. He seemed to have had too much to drink. His luggage included a smallbore rifle...
...Beta Kappas, in whose learned magazine The American Scholar this description of a future face appeared this week. know Dr. Thomas Hall Shastid of Duluth. as a serious, prodigious eye specialist, lawyer, novelist, translator, editor, inventor, pacifist.* His pastime is to visit zoos with an ophthalmoscope with which he peers into the eyes of fish, birds, snakes and beasts. Doing likewise, remarks he in his Phi Beta Kappa article, "will prove an event in the lives of most scientists. Nor, strange to say, are very many animals averse to the use on their eyes of that instrument of investigation...