Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...precise press called glaucoma (hardening of the eyeball). His King, Chancellor Bruning, Secretary of State Stimson, Premier Mussolini all sent telegrams of sympathy. The delicate operation, performed by Dr. William Stewart Duke-Elder, was successful. Prime Minister MacDonald planned to return to work in ten days, visit the Disarmament Conference in his own good time...
...Love Rankin, a U. S. woman doctor attached to the Chinese Red Cross, one day last week tried to visit her husband who teaches school in a Shanghai suburb. Japanese bombers roared overhead. Frightened, she ran, thought of hiding behind an automobile, changed her mind, jumped behind a tree. The automobile was blown to bits. Bombs burst all around her, buried her in debris. Two coats and a sweater protected her from serious injury...
...neither could he kill it. As the cobra fixed him with its jeweled eyes, he sat crosslegged, giving back stare for stare. For ten minutes neither moved a muscle. Then the warden returned, clubbed the cobra to death. "That was wrong," said St. Gandhi severely. "The cobra's visit was a good omen...
...from her husband, Casimir Dudevant, the natural son of a Napoleonic baron, because of his excessive addiction to young ladies, George Sand turned to Jules Sandeau, with whom she collaborated on her first novel and from whom she took her pseudonym. The affair was short-lived. Returning from a visit to the country, she was surprised to discover that her fickle Jules had set up their laundress as his mistress in her apartment...
Several days before the execution last week the sensational press tried to inject into it some of the epic quality of the capture. Notably energetic was Hearst's evening Journal. It tried to engineer a last-minute visit of Helen Walsh, the girl friend, to the death house; it assigned seven reporters and photographers to the story and ballyhooed it with a radio broadcast by the city editor. Other newsmen at the prison called the proceedings ''The Journal's execution...