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Word: visitant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...descended from Sir John Lyon, the adventurous Thane of Glamis who in 1376 won as his bride Princess Jean, daughter of King Robert II of Scotland. Shakespeare's tragedy of Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, goes back to an earlier legendary period, but tourists still visit the Queen's ancestral home Glamis (pronounced Glahms) Castle to see where "Macbeth did murder Duncan," King of Scotland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: After Boadicea | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...this time vainly trying to get Edward of Wales to settle down by marrying, but, although Lady Elizabeth was mentioned prominently, it was not "David" (the future Edward VIII) but "Bertie," then Duke of York, who presently came to Glamis and did his best to propose during his visit. The Duke, acutely conscious of his speech impediment but also tremendously in love, went for a ride with Lady Elizabeth on the day scheduled for his departure, finally tore a leaf from his notebook in desperation scribbled what he wanted to say and passed it over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: After Boadicea | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...decline interference of any kind by a third power with this settlement'' and described itself as laying "a foundation for progressing development of friendly relations between [the German & Russian] peoples." In outward token of chumminess, Herr von Ribbentrop, whose German aides on the occasion of his first visit said they were sure his Russian hosts were too tactful to ask him to meet a Jew, banqueted in the Kremlin cheek by jowl with two Jewish Soviet Cabinet Commissars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Moscow's Week | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...another American-the U. S. Naval Attaché in England, Captain Alan G. Kirk-to give Britain the last, happy word in the Ark Royal dispute. Capt. Kirk reported to the state department that in the course of a "routine official visit" to the Fleet, he attended church services and ate lunch aboard the Ark Royal, found her "not scratched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Where Is the Ark Royal? | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...neutrality issue by the persuasive baritone of Royal Oak, Mich.-Rev. Charles Edward Coughlin, with whom Cardinal Mundelein had crossed swords publicly in the past. The Cardinal knew that the Vatican, neutral in the War, was concerned about U. S. neutrality. Bishop Sheil had just returned from a visit to Rome, had hotfooted to Washington for a two-hour lunch in the White House. It then became known that his C. Y. 0. speech would be broadcast and that it would uphold the Administration, denounce Father Coughlin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Builder's Death | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

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