Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Visit Spain if you seek lively and lovely...
...color-loving, fun-seeking Sudanese there were color and fun aplenty. It was Leilat el Isra, anniversary of Mohamed's visit to the seven heavens on his human-faced steed el Buraq. It was also the birthday anniversary of Mohamed Ahmed el Mahdi, whose fanatic desert dervishes destroyed "Chinese" Gordon's British army in the Sudan...
Officially, that was all there was to the state visit. The Trumans had dinner quietly that night with Mackenzie King, while daughter Margaret sang solos for the 24 guests at an Embassy party and chimed in as the group sang Down by the Old Mill Stream. About 11 o'clock, Harry Truman joined the party. The President played a polka, Paderewski's Minuet in G, part of a Mozart sonata and some waltzes...
...Take Them with You. The last day of the visit had been set aside, at the President's specific request, for whatever he wanted to do. It turned out to be a 45-mile drive downriver to the swank Seigniory Club, where he had lunch and held a greensward press conference. Perhaps his speech the day before had seemed too obviously aimed at Russia. So he broadened the appeal: the U.S. wants friendship with every nation, he said, emphasizing the word every...
...dignity of a state visit because Prime Minister King had invited the President in the name of the Governor General (one chief of state to another). Franklin Roosevelt made official (but not state) visits to Kingston in 1938 and Quebec...