Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vanguard steamed on, city fathers in Cape Town, Johannesburg and Pretoria worked feverishly, decorating their cities with colored lights and bunting. Striking bakers decided to go back to work in honor of the visit, with the threat to strike again when the King had gone home. In Cape Town 18 young men (carefully matched in weight and height) were reported practicing on a three-inch bar suspended like a tightrope to perfect their balance when they took over as stewards on the royal train. Snapped the New Statesman's Kingsley Martin when this news reached London: "Buckingham Palace needs...
...Marseilles, angel-faced Actress Danielle Darrieux said she was now going to divorce Porfirio Rubirosa (who used to be Dominican charge d'affaires in Vichy) to marry her third, Actor Pierre Louis. When Husband Porfirio paid her a visit, "I made known to him my intention . . ." said she. "He accepted like a gentle-man." Plump, greying Columnist Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., 48, whose first, second and third marriages lasted, respectively", seven, three and six years, was now separated, after something less than six months, from beauteous Maria Feliza Pablos, 29-year-old grandniece of Mexico's late President Porfirio...
Crown Prince Saud Ibn Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia finished his cross-country tour of the U.S., prepared to head for home this week after a month's visit. Detroit, where Prince & party occupied two entire floors of a hotel, would not soon forget him. He saw the auto capital's numerous postwar wonders, but what he really wanted, he said firmly, was one of those good old 1936 Pierce-Arrows. His father's-very roomy and comfortable-was wearing...
...Fine that they were fed up with the way their communities made them live. They longed for the freedom to marry, smoke, drink, dress and pray when and as they pleased. Many felt like second-class citizens. Said one Nebraska teacher: "The only time I am asked to visit the home of any parent is when little Johnny is in trouble...
...British, seeing G.I.s play baseball during the war, generally regarded it as a sissy game, like the one played by little girls & boys and called Rounders. When Babe Ruth tried his hand at cricket in a visit to England in 1935, he swatted the ball so hard that he broke the bat. He glowed: "I wish they would let me use a bat as wide as this in baseball...