Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Miss Ireland (Eleanor Graham) brought to Manhattan from the old country the solid advantages that had won her a monopoly of the title for six years, then trotted off to a little Pennsylvania town named Devon to visit her father. She would go back to Manhattan to model right away...
...dusty 1941 Buick convertible pulled up beside the road. Four men pored over rumpled road maps. The sallow one with tousled, thinning grey hair said he wanted to get to Moscow. He said it in Russian. The maps didn't help; the whim of Ilya Grigorevich Ehrenburg to visit Moscow, Ala. was not satisfied.* But by last week the Soviet Union's foremost journalist had spent 15 days rambling through the South at his own pace, following his own itinerary with companions of his own choice. It was the kind of reportorial freedom that U.S. correspondents in Moscow...
...your high-powered fact-finding sensation mongers would like to visit this "sleepier" town, the Chamber of Commerce will pay your fare here & return by Pullman or plane, feed you on Southern fried chicken and hickory-cured Kentucky ham with all the trimmings, and, what is more, we'll even try to wear our shoes while you are here...
George VI, Queen Elizabeth and Princess Elizabeth had a georgic week. In a talk to the Royal Agricultural College of Cirencester,* the King described himself as "a farmer-with all a farmer's responsibilities." The Queen wore a thistle tarn on a visit to the royal farms at Windsor with agricultural conference delegates. The Princess, in a radio talk that foreshadowed her adult responsibilities, denied that the empire was "built by cunning," put it thus: "The empire has grown like a garden, not a formal garden . . . but one that makes use of nature for its beauty, of the sort...
...only a press agent for hot music but also a successful promoter, Hugues deserves credit for having blown the breath of life into that walloping organization, The Hot Club of France, and was instrumental in forming the French recording company called Swing. On his whirlwind visit to this country circa 1938, he did the spade work on Victor's re-issuing program, organized those lusty Mezzrow-Ladnier Quintet sessions on Bluebird, and godfathered one of Basie's best waxings, the Panassie Stomp...