Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Edward of Wales has agreed to pay an official visit to Argentina and Brazil in March. Purpose of the visit: to drum up trade for British manufacturers in both countries. Last week he flew to Le Touquet. France, in his scarlet cabin Moth plane, played golf, was warned off a new course by one Allen Gault, greenskeeper. Suddenly recognizing H. R. H., Greenskeeper Gault suffered a mild attack...
Thomas St. John Gaffney, onetime U. S. Consul-General in Berlin, returning from a visit with Wilhelm Hohenzollern at Doorn, deflated the legend that the ex-Kaiser continually chops wood for exercise; explained that, since his withered left arm hampers his axe-work, "what the Kaiser does is take the pieces of wood in his right hand and toss them with unerring accuracy into the barn loft...
...prorogation and neither was his Prime Minister. While the King Emperor waited near a telephone on the verandah of the Royal Yacht squadron at Cowes, looking at yacht races and waiting for news of the birth of a grandchild, Ramsay MacDonald was on his way to Oberammergau?first visit of a British Prime Minister to Germany since the war. It was Ramsay MacDonald's fourth Passion Play: 1890, 1900, 1910 all found him at Oberammergau...
...pass on their way to Rome, founded a hospice on the highest point, 8000 ft., decreed that it should stand as a haven for all travelers. Several years later he founded another hospice, in the Little St. Bernard pass which runs from Bourg St. Maurice to Aosta. During a visit to Rome, he petitioned the Pope to assign the charge to the Augustinian monks. Today there are about 40 St. Bernard brothers, some at the Great Pass, some at the Little Pass, some in neighboring parishes...
...have been criticized for having visited the School unexpectedly, without giving prior notice, and investigating as I did. As to this I believe that this is better than to go when plans have been made and the School is on dress parade. I conceive it to be within the duty of the Governor to visit any institution any time to learn first hand what is going...