Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Needle. Buoyed by his visit home, Slaughter kept right on slaughtering. Last week, along with Indiana's Republican Charles Halleck, he slipped a hot needle into the C.I.O.'s Political Action Committee. Into a House resolution to check into 1946 election expenditures, they inserted a clause to include "labor organizations and committees thereof...
...airport next morning to say goodbye to Jimmy Byrnes and his party. "Why don't you come and visit us in Paris?" asked Senator Tom Connally. "I might do that," joshed the President, and sparked a brisk flame of false rumor...
...ambassador did not seem particularly enchanted with Detroit, nor with the detectives who formed a wall of flesh around him throughout his visit. But he was shown capitalistic splendor of all types. He was taken to the Ford plant, equipped with goggles, and directed to stare into an open hearth furnace. Russian-born Mike Mukol, a steelworker, was called up to explain everything...
...that his wife was handsome. She wore a semi-transparent summer dress at the Ford plant and her slip kept climbing up underneath it. Everybody admired her legs. Said one observer in a hoarse aside: "Don't tell me that's peasant stock." High point of the visit was a banquet staged by the Detroit Committee of Russian Relief, Inc. It was held in the cream and red ballroom of the Book-Cadillac Hotel. It was a real party-bald heads gleamed like large opals and many of the female capitalists saluted the Kremlin by wearing orchids...
Henry L Mencken, 65, lord high lambaster of the '20s, had a visit from Columnist Ward Morehouse and impersonated his old self. Nostalgic excerpts from the interview: "People are in a state of imbecility. The country is a wreck. . . . The United Nations has no more chance than the Ku Klux Klan would have in the Vatican...