Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hungary hanging is different. It begins the day before with a visit by the hangman to look over and guess with practiced eye, the weight of the condemned...
...later read to their congregations. Thus were high thoughts diffused among rustic minds. Last week in Texas, a region hospitable to pulpit novelties,* was initiated a modernized version of such preserved preaching. Scene was the Woodland Heights Presbyterian Church, a small Houston congregation which important churchmen lack time to visit in person. To that little church the Division of Visual Aids of the Presbyterian Board of Christian Education sent talking picture equipment. The machines reproduced the gestures and words of Dr. William Chalmers Covert, general secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Christian Education, and of Dr. William Ralph Hall, director...
Cautiously at Prague the Spanish Legation admitted that Count Zamoyski (husband of His Majesty's cousin the Infanta Isabella) has "invited" the Spanish Royal Family to visit his Alpine castle...
After landing at Vancouver on Friday, April 17, King Prajadhipok of Siam will arrive in Cambridge later in the month, where he will be entertained by a committee of Siamese Harvard students. Since he plans to pay a short visit to the leading cities of Canada, the date of his arrival in Cambridge is as yet uncertain. Due to the unsettled nature of the King's program the reception committee has been unable to come to a final decision regarding the entertainment to be provided. A formal dinner at which he will be the guest of honor has been hinted...
When John Dixon Folkes, expatriate, half-French, came to Kentucky in 1890 to visit his father's family, he was homesick for Paris. But he was only 17, and Susan Abel was pretty. When she let him seduce her he was going to let it go at that. But then old Gabriel, direct descendant of Hunter Gabriel, began to tell him some of the family history. By the time the old man finished, young John decided to marry the girl, stay in Kentucky...