Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With Congress gone and his friends scattered, "Nick" Longworth idled about deserted Washington. He picked up a cold. It grew worse. Feeling "utterly wretched" he decided to go down to sunny, sandy Aiken, S. C. to visit his good Washington friends Mr. & Mrs. James F. Curtis (no kin to the Vice President). Fortnight ago he arrived at their low, shrub-bowered home behind its stone wall. His cold got no better. It went into his chest. Early last week doctors were called in, and put the Speaker into bed as a pneumonia patient. The pneumonia was dread Type...
When William Richards Castle Jr. left Washington to visit his sister in San Francisco, he was merely an Assistant Secretary of State.* Last week when he detrained at his destination he found himself THE Undersecretary of State. While he was speeding across the prairie in a Pullman, his good friend President Hoover had promoted him to the No. 1 sub-Cabinet post, vacant since the death of Joseph Potter Cotton (TIME, March 23). Never before had a career diplomat climbed within one rung of the top of his professional ladder...
...American junket, with his brother, Prince George of England found his bedroom at the British Embassy ransacked. Personal jewelry of "considerable value" had been stolen. Police tracked down the thief, discovered him to be a prominent young Argentine, who had consorted with the Princes a great deal during their visit. His name was not divulged. The jewelry was recovered...
Joyce Cornvelt, South African Dutch girl, came back to Holland when her father's death left her an orphan. But the Leyden Cornvelts did not take to her very kindly. She was glad to pay a visit to the English branch of the family. The London Cornvelts were completely Anglicized and quite prosperous; they treated her like the country cousin she was, but Joyce preferred them to the Leydeners. That was in 1908, when the question of woman's suffrage in England had already begun to burn. The Cornvelts were for it, but in a nice way; nobody...
Andre, the first-person hero, of mixed Jewish and French blood, has been educated in England, lives in Paris, but goes to the U. S. to visit his younger brother, who has married a rich Manhattanite and become a respectable U. S. broker. Andre himself has enough money to do nothing, and lives according to his income. But he has Bohemian tastes and his sister-in-law runs him ragged, bores him to death with an interminable succession of highly respectable entertainments. One afternoon Andre, left unguarded for a few minutes, spies a temptingly good and quite empty...