Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proud mammoth was a sorry grotesque sight. One wing, stripped of its covering, stretched its blackened framework upward at a crazy angle. The other, now unbalanced, dipped its weight into the sea. The hull was blackened, much of the interior flooded. Said Captain Friedrich Christiansen, returning from his shore visit, "It's hard luck, but our ocean trip will not be called off. It is only delayed...
This is New York. There is an old saying that "New York is a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't live there if you gave me the place." Robert E. Sherwood, once an editor of Life, having written The Road to Rome and Waterloo Bridge, has turned his attention to this saw and has evidently decided to make a rebuttal. Producer Arthur Hopkins has selected a creditable cast to present Mr. Sherwood's side of the question. There is charming, blonde Lois Moran, recently of the audible cinema. Her legitimate stage technique is somewhat adolescent...
William Randolph Hearst made known that the "Hearst-For-President"' buttons which popped up in Los Angeles during his recent visit there had been distributed by one S. F. Champion Jr. on the latter's own initiative. Said Publisher Hearst in a letter to Booster Champion: "1) I have had my day in politics . . . not a very long day nor a very brilliant day,† but sufficient to convince me that my best opportunity for achievement was . . . not in holding office. 2) I am 67 years old. 3) A politician can never tell how much of his sacrifice...
...students from preparatory schools which will be held at Cambridge this year will serve two very useful purposes. The ostensible reason for the convention is to discuss the various problems arising from the social and religious work of school Y. M. C. A.s; the chief object of the visit and the one which is most pertinent to the University is to acquaint the future college students with some notion of the nature of colleges and college life...
...visit of the conference members is necessarily brief and their impressions are bound to be rather superficial. However it affords an excellent method of showing the inner workings of the University to its future members and is worthy of extension to include all secondary school students who are planning to go to college. Such an impartial exposition of everyday college life ought to help to eliminate many of the difficulties of adjustment which are encountered by the incoming Freshmen...