Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first evening of Canadian Prime Minister Richard Bedford Bennett's "unofficial" three-day visit to Washington was spent in the company of President Hoover, Secretary Stimson and his assistant William R. Castle Jr. Also present: Hanford MacNider, U. S. Minister to Canada. Although no intimation of what was discussed was forthcoming, it was generally assumed that Liquor, Tariff, St. Lawrence River power, and a possible U. S. embargo on Canadian wheat furnished dinner conversation. Only public utterance on Mr. Bennett's visit was made by President Hoover. Said he: "We are mutually interested in the common welfare...
...visit of the young men should give them a definite concept toward which their school work is tending. So far entrance examinations have not proved an adequate incentive to preparation which will place the prospective freshmen in a position to fit in directly with a higher system of learning. The best result which the conference could achieve would be to send the delegates back with a more mature outlook toward problems which they will be expected to face in the next four years...
...comfortably in a seven-room English bungalow. Every morning he works in his study, in afternoons chats with Pasadena scientists or attends advanced seminars at California Institute of Technology. Evenings are usually spent quietly at home. But one evening last week, so gay was he over an invitation to visit his old friend Lawyer Samuel Unter-myer in Coachella Valley, that he did a thing unusual for him-went to a Los Angeles cinema...
...threatening letter at Milton Academy, Mass., was stealthily whisked away and a decoy left in her place to trap the blackmailers (TIME, June 3, 1929). (No blackmailers were trapped.) Colonel Lindbergh flew Anne. Elisabeth. Constance and their mother to the Morrow summer home in Maine for a secluded visit, thence back to their Englewood, N. J. home where the newshawk army, unaware of all that had occurred, laid siege for news of the impending wedding. But the "plot" had by no means been "smashed...
...when dyspepsia and human folly reduced him to one of his frequent tantrums. Both Biscuit and Berry, dissatisfied with their lot, felt the need of some change. When lovely Ann Moon. Frisby's niece, came over for a London season, and the equally desirable Kitchie Valentine paid a visit to Berry's next-door neighbor, changes came fast & furious. Engagements, false beards, gunmen, a copper mine, burglary, wedding bells are all Wodehumorously manipulated...