Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sleepy days slipped by the President's tan deepened; he toured the island by automobile, took morning walks past semitropical flowers, spent lazy evenings on the yacht. At week's end he was considering prolonging his visit, returning to Washington by plane at the last possible minute...
...Analysts. In the hierarchy of psychiatric treatment, ranging from a single $5 (or free) clinic visit to a $25,000 lifetime course, the luxury trade is psychoanalysis.* Concentrated mainly in neurotic Manhattan, psychoanalysis is split into at least a dozen schools, from orthodox Freudians to socially conscious Horneyans (leader: Dr. Karen Horney), who dispute Freud's idea that sex is everything and put more emphasis on environment. Its big-league practitioners include Dr. Franz Alexander, who directs the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis; Dr. Gregory Zilboorg and Dr. Lawrence Kubie, fashionable Park Avenue analysts; Drs. William and Karl Menninger...
Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock, a mosaic-walled mosque in a corner of the Old City, is Islam's third holiest shrine. From the Rock, Mohamed, led by the Angel Gabriel, ascended on el-Buraq, his eagle-winged mare with the human face, to visit the seven heavens of Islam. (Mohamed's footprint, judged by Mark Twain to be about size 18, is still pointed out to true believers; in the 12th Century it was shown as the footprint of Christ.) Here the muezzin's wail is still heard from the upper air, calling...
Princess Sukhodhaya of Siam, widow of the late King Prajadhipok and aunt of the late (murdered) King Ananda Mahidol, was in Manhattan on a visit, looked forward to some shopping just as soon as the mourning was finished. Special interests: ice cream and nylons...
...went to Russia at Government invitation to investigate the status of its 2,000,000 Baptists. For the visit the Russians rolled out the Red carpet. The visitor had two nice visits with onetime seminarian Joseph Stalin, to whom he gave a leather-bound copy of the New Testament and two pipes. He also got permission to preach hellfire-&-damnation sermons in churches in nine cities, from Moscow to Stalingrad. Before he was through, his hosts had even persuaded the alcohol-hating Baptist to try a sip of vodka. (His judgment: "It tasted like kerosene mixed with stump water...