Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...excitement gave the wrong address. When she telephoned again the operator said it was a funny story but not to bother her any more. After still a third call, police came to fetch Neighbor Jones for questioning as a suspicious character, but she induced them to visit the entubbed Mrs. Benson. There they met a squad of firemen. They covered Mrs. Benson, fed her, pried her loose...
With a good deal more seriousness than would have been evidenced at a similar meeting three or four years ago, the young ladies of the Junior League last week held their annual national conference in Philadelphia. There were luncheons and a visit to socialite Mrs. Richard Haughton's rock gardens, but for the most part the session had the aspect of a four-day retreat for political education...
...able David, in which he was a Kentucky feudist with a homicidal mania. When he heard that $1,000 salaries for actors were common in Hollywood; Ernest Torrence said: "Talk like that makes a Scotchman intoxicated." He had just completed I Cover the Waterfront, started home to visit his brothers in Edinburgh when he died. Critics considered his posthumous performance one of his finest...
...Paraguayans appeared to be well supplied with ammunition. They certainly did not attempt to economize during the hours of my visit. Their aim, however, was not particularly deadly. The Bolivians used their guns sparingly, apparently under orders to conserve their ammunition...
...Carson City, Nev., following the visit of inspection to Virginia & Truckce Railway paid by Ogden Livingston Mills and Mr. & Mrs. Herbert Hoover (TIME, April 10), it was announced last week after a meeting of the road's directors that Mr. Mills had purchased a controlling interest in the road. Built (to connect the Comstock silver lode with Reno) in 1869 by Darius Ogden Mills, grandfather of the present owner, Virginia & Truckee was controlled in recent years by the Mills and Sharon estates of San Francisco. Rising silver prices, discovery of a new lode at Virginia City have made prospects...