Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next month the President had a real vacation in mind. He planned a nonstop flight to Mexico City for a visit with President Miguel Aleman. On the way back he would stop off at Waco, Tex., to get an honorary degree from Baylor University† and later in the week go on to witness part of the Atlantic Fleet maneuvers in the Caribbean...
...visit was a whirlwind. He spoke forcefully at Town Hall on "Whose Country Is This, Anyway?" He went to a party at the Wendell Willkie Memorial Building. He was interviewed by Tex McCrary & wife Jinx Falkenburg for their chatty-patty breakfast radio program. And for the climax he appeared on Information Please, where Willkie first budded into radio popularity. Mr. Arnall did not bud, he bloomed...
Chances were only one in twenty that Peggy was having a baby, but Manhattan's Lane Bryant store is so famed for its maternity clothes that a visit there almost automatically lands a woman in Winchell's column. Actually, Lane Bryant, Inc., which has 22 other retail shops and a big mail-order plant to boot, does 95% of its $41 million annual business in non-maternity wear. Its chief stock-in-trade is the legitimate offspring of its maternity wear: clothes for fat women...
...guest appearances in his first visit to the U.S., Munch was allowed to pick his own programs. In Boston, where he made a big hit, Beacon Hill rustled with rumors that he would succeed 72-year-old Serge Koussevitzky as the Boston's permanent conductor...
Neutra met Wright at Sullivan's funeral in 1924. Soon afterwards, with his wife and mother-in-law, he paid a long visit to Wright's Wisconsin home, Taliesin. Neutra named his eldest son for Wright, went forth to preach the gospel of modern architecture on lecture tours which took him from Rome to Tokyo. He long ago fashioned a style of his own, and made mass housing his main interest...