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Word: visitant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...general manifesto, he announced: "I have lived in exile in 15 European countries in flight from the U. S. income-tax collectors. If Andorra refuses me, the only other European country I may visit is Liechtenstein. . . . I'm a real gangster, it's true, but I'm no criminal, and I want to remain what I have always been -honest. Europeans make a big mistake when they give honesty a meaning it never had. I've never kidnapped anybody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANDORRA: No Admittance | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

Eleanor meets Tarzan and his chimpanzee chum when they rescue her from a tumble into a morass. When he places an amoral hand on her thigh, she socks him, he socks her back into the muck, swings off into the tangled forest. On his next visit he fights off an enraged lioness, but when he zips back into his trees, nobody will believe Eleanor's story. Then one day Eleanor, clad in a neat white jumper suit, strolls into the bush. Tarzan snatches her away to his eyrie. On the bank of his jungle swimming hole Tarzan makes funny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 17, 1938 | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

Frank Robinson says that at a visit to the White House a year ago President Roosevelt told him: "Doc, you and I are trying to do the same thing: make people think." A top-notch salesman. Doc Robinson has never forgotten how, in his behind-the-counter drugstore days, he once sold five one-gallon jugs of mineral oil to a man who came in to buy a pint. Besides its own building in Moscow, Psychiana owns three drugstores, a daily paper, the News-Review. An accomplished organist, the founder has an 800-pipe Wurlitzer in his big Moscow home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Money-Back Religion | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

...factual pamphlets on governments, armies, women and businessmen. In a huge, drab, wooden building that was once a boys' school, Charles and Mary Beard, now engaged on a history of the past ten years, live in virtual retirement with no telephone or radio. But each winter they visit Washington, D. C., where Charles Beard sees his good friends Senators Norris and La Follette, Justice Brandeis, Secretary Wallace, and keeps an educated eye open for signs that Congressmen and Senators are doing what his books show they have so often done in the past-talk abstract principles while advocating legislation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Historical Family | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

...next Sunday its readers may learn the "DETAILS OF MR. DEMILLE'S VISIT. CAMERA FANS CAN THEN LEARN WHERE MR. DEMILLE WILL BE AT VARIOUS HOURS THROUGHOUT...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POLISH YOUR LENSES, MEN OF HARVARD, AND GO WEST | 1/14/1938 | See Source »

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