Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this they expected to crowd into General Justo's five-day visit, also attending Argentine horse races, motor races, the Buenos Aires Inerouzonicbnnar and a big banquet every night. At the first banquet Guest Justo keynoted "international solidarity," Host Vargas "peaceful co-existence...
...Divide et Impera," reasoned the British, and told the Americans of the mysterious visit of a French emissary to London. "The French have betrayed their word," they whispered slyly, "They will get a separate peace, and you will get nothing." Dr. Franklin stroked his lace frill with bejeweled chubby fingers and pondered the possibilities of a separate peace. Le Comte de Vergennes toyed with the silver inkpot on his satinwood desk, and tried to fathom the strange actions of his friends the Americans. Even Dr. Franklin received him a bit stiffly, a bit coldly...
...tyrannically and ably rules his hot-blood-swilling Abyssinians (meaning "mixed peoples") he is careful to keep always on his gaudiest full-dress behavior toward the Occident. By way of reminding Europe of his highly Biblical pedigree he sent Empress Waizeru Menen to the Holy Land last week to visit its chief Christian shrines...
...Western classics, she heaved herself from a special train onto Jerusalem's railroad station platform while a British band blared "The Lion of the Tribe of Judah is Victor!" -Abyssinia's national anthem. No pagan but a Coptic Christian, Her Majesty had come not only to visit Christian shrines but also to dedicate an Abyssinian Coptic Christian Church. Jerusalem's handful of Abyssinians excitedly waved date palms. A crowd of Coptic priests, Abyssinian officials and Palestine's Acting High Commissioner Mark Aitchison Young, all tried to make the fat brown beauty feel as happy...
...Chicago went Senator Marconi, to visit the Fair, mingle with Italian societies, eat with the American Legion, broadcast over the Atlantic to his listening King Victor Emmanuel receive an honorary Sc.D. from President Walter Dill Scott of Northwestern University, accept a 28-in. bronze statuet of an exultant young man from the grateful Radio Manufacturers Association...