Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week a blurry-minded transient in Miami, thought to himself: "My stomach, it hurts. I hate all Presidents. I kill them." He had pondered the possibility of killing President Hoover until he read, tore out and stuffed in his pocket a newspaper clipping that said President-elect Roosevelt would visit Miami in two days. With the .32-calibre revolver, which he got from the pawnshop without need of permit or self-identification, he was a fully equipped assassin...
...gave a party at which all the guests were costumed to represent theme songs. Mr. & Mrs. John North Willys arrived. The Henry Seligmans gave a party at the Café Marguery of the Bath & Tennis Club. Edward T. Stotesbury and Maria Jeritza attended. Professor Raymond T. Moley came to visit Mr. & Mrs. Joseph P. Kennedy. Joseph E. Widener and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney went to the races at Hialeah. The A. Atwater Kents entertained at dinner. The Chester Dales arrived. So did John Jacob Astor. So did the Edward F. Huttons. So did President Joseph Vincent McKee of New York...
Anyone whose curiosity impels him to visit it will find almost always that, except for an attendant, he is quite alone, and for good reason. Very few of the volumes dumped into the Poetry Room are worth the trouble of reading, and those which are, most often will be found only after a tedious search. There is no catalogue system in use, and the small size of most of the volumes makes them particularly difficult to detect. An its inaccessibility is of course, a contributing factor in the unpopularity of the Room...
Back from a state visit to Rumania which Jugoslav editors called "momentous," His Majesty King Alexander began to play the role of Ruthless Dictator last week, dropping that of Constitutional Sovereign...
Sinaia. in the mountains north of Bucharest, is the snug retreat of Rumania's King Carol. Hostess there during the Jugoslav royal visit was Divorcé Carol's sister, ex-Queen Elisabeth of Greece. Italian newsorgans were furious. Rumania lately turned down a proposal by Benito Mussolini that she sign a treaty pledging assistance to Italy in case of a war with Jugoslavia. From Italy's standpoint the Rumanian Government, by consenting to a Jugoslavian state visit, was offering a rebuff to Italy, putting Il Duce's political nose out of joint...