Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he arrived in Independence, he was met by his brother Vivian and his old crony, U.S. Marshal Fred Canfil (see cut). That night he pointedly stayed away from the Democratic rally in the Memorial Building, instead drove over to Grandview to visit his 93-year-old mother. In his absence Mayor Roger Sermon explained the facts of life to Harry Truman's puzzled fellow citizens. "He'd give his right arm to be here tonight, but there are some things he can't do. He must preserve the dignity of his office...
...sometimes Grandmama came to visit. She was regal and beautiful. She told little Beatrix wonderful stories of her youth-about the adorer who had first written her a beautiful poem, beginning "Sweet harp of Lune Villa!" and then drowned himself in the lily-pond (some said he only tripped and fell in), and about another adorer who was unfortunately "quite a common man. My mother directed the footman to put him under the pump." Grandmama never knew that the little girl, under cover of drawing butterflies, was recording every word in self-made shorthand, written in a script so tiny...
...book is filled with the stench of dead horses and dead men rotting on the vast Ukrainian plain. Malaparte was in Jassy on the night of the pogrom when 7,000 Jews were killed in the streets. He was allowed to visit the Warsaw brothels whose girls the Germans killed after a short period to replace them with fresh victims. There are chilling pictures of the Warsaw ghetto...
Spiritual Provincialism? Britain's Catholic Herald was quick to point out that the Archbishop of York's thrust followed close on the Archbishop of Canterbury's statement, during his U.S. visit in September, that "the 'iron curtain' interposed by the Roman Catholic Church against the Protestant churches is the greatest single obstacle in the way of ... [Christian] unity." Editorialized the angry Herald: "Here we have the two highest dignitaries of the Church of England suddenly complaining in pointed language about well-established Catholic teaching and discipline. . . . Provincialism, whether in spiritual or political matters, is becoming...
Everyone agrees that the Scarlet were the smartest, best-coached outfit to visit the Stadium since 1942, and from a purely esthetic point of view, their alert backing-up and silk-smooth offensive machinations were delightful to behold. And throughout the nation this year, past season records, the size of undergraduate bodies, and batteries of press agents don't mean too much, for only eleven men are allowed to play at one time...