Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Washington tried hard to play down the first U.S. visit of British Field Marshal Viscount Bernard Law Montgomery, Chief of the Imperial General Staff. Just a friendly call, said Harry Truman. Uneasy Monty, whirled through a hectic tour last week of U.S. military posts, donned his chattiest air of idle curiosity. But the yen to talk turkey about U.S.-British strategy was as plain as the eight rows of ribbons on Monty's chest...
Banter aside, the Montgomery visit was a serious reconnaissance of the present stage of U.S. military weapons and training. Before 100 U.S. General Staff officers, personally selected by Eisenhower, Monty gave in return his own off-the-record evaluation of the tension in Europe. When he returned to Britain this week, Monty would take back something more lasting than paper matches...
After an eight-month season of fortnightly concerts, the new Royal will probably tour England and the Continent, eventually visit the U.S. "Sixty or 70 [U.S.] cities have asked me to bring an English orchestra over," says enthusiastic Sir Thomas...
Across Quincy Street is the Union, dining hall to acons of Freshmen, as well as the offices of the Harvard Athletic Association, where tickets for football games and other tests of skill are obtained. English A students will have many occasions to visit Warren House to the rear of the Union. Northward on Quincy Street is the Fogg Art Museum...
...analyzed the lure. It ought to be sex, but one visit makes that doubtful. Whatever it is, Harvard-men meet with Boston on common ground at the Old Howard--leer almost as luridly at the flesh as do the natives, shudder with them at the chorus, and blush a slightly darker shade of pink at the comedians...