Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...knew it, mounted marines were a real part of the U. S. Marine Corps. During the U. S. "trade-follows-the-flag" era, mounted marines were used in Cuba, Haiti, Santo Domingo, Mexico and Nicaragua. In 1903 a squad of marines jogged on horseback through barren Ethiopia to visit Emperor Menelek II. Then in 1909, with China on the edge of a bloody revolution, a detachment of U. S. marines stationed at Peking mounted stumpy-legged Mongolian ponies, set to watching over U. S. citizens living outside embassy quarters. Since then, the Peking marines have remained a mounted unit...
Today the India Office is afraid to let Their Majesties go to New Delhi even for a visit, let alone a Durbar. The princes are afraid that if they join the All-India Federation their states will be overrun with radical Gandhi Congressmen and preachers of sedition, with or without violence. The Indian National Congress, which opposes Federation tooth & nail, is afraid that if the native states are permitted to come in under the Constitution the entire All-India Federation will be a setup so rigid that it may take generations to overthrow the Rajas, Maharajas and Nawabs...
...this annual orbit since his two years in Taos, N. Mex. in 1929-30, a period when he says the brilliance of light in the desert made him "continually dippy." Painters like Tintoretto, Rembrandt and Goya he usually refers to as "those old boys." Last week his first visit to Manhattan's Frick Gallery set him wondering what the old boys would think of him. He decided that they would be lenient...
Freshmen in Briggs and Cabot have complained that since there were no rope fire escapes in those dormitories, they should be excused from the gruelling grind. Their objection was overridden by the fact that they might sometime visit a building where rope was the only means of escape...
...Bronx was not the same: the fan mail was already starting to come in. Wrote one: "I heard you on the radio last night and I am looking forward to seeing your picture very much. It was very nice of you to go all the way to Elmira to visit Mr. Selznick's grave...