Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said last night that they will base their declaration on the reception given them on a chance visit to the Cambridge club last Saturday night. Met at the door by the owner, John B. Jarvis, they were abruptly halted and asked for "membership cards...
...grandstands threw their silver cigaret lighters to the Austrians. So many gifts of butter, meat, poultry, chocolate and liquor piled in on the Axa Hotel, where the Austrians were staying, that the management turned the lobby into a temporary warehouse. Flags flew in Brno. Pilsen begged the Austrians to visit its best hotel. And in two coal mines of Ostrava, miners promised to work two extra shifts digging coal for Austria. In hockey-happy Czechoslovakia the joke of the week was a cartoon showing a man carrying a bag overflowing with rare food. "Stop him," cries a woman...
...paved the walks and turfed the unkempt fields. In the city, little groups of men labored past midnight, filling in every last crack in the pavement that Harry Truman would ride over. Every boulevard shrub had been freshly manured to make the capital a little greener for its first visit, this week, from a U.S. President...
...civic fiesta, a flight over the four-year-old volcano Paricutin, and lunch among the pyramids of Teotihuacán were not all the Mexicans had programmed for Harry Truman's three-day visit. They also had some problems they wanted to discuss...
...Meredith had been an early admirer, but had been dismissed because his beard was too bristly. Other admirers or callers came & went-an old judge who claimed that he had loved 100 women, no more, no less; the great Lord Northcliffe, who usually passed at least part of each visit relaxing prone on the floor. "There's absolutely nothing to be surprised about in someone choosing to lie on his stomach," Marie Leighton explained. "The sooner you children learn to accept any eccentricity as though it were a commonplace, the better equipped you will be for life...