Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...booster of private flying, Ackerman plans to display the products of various aircraft manufacturers across the States and perhaps include them in technicolor movies with the many governors who have invited him in for a visit...
Bernard Cardinal Griffin, Archbishop of Westminster, flew into New York for a fortnight's U.S. visit, was greeted by i) Francis Cardinal Spellman, 2) newsmen, who goggled at the visitor's British version (bowl-on-a-platter-style) Roman hat. Cardinal Spellman brightly declared that he would buy Cardinal Griffin a new one, U.S. style, later informed the press: "The matter has already been taken care...
...didn't sing a note. This week Menotti's seven-year-old opera bouffe, The Old Maid and the Thief (TIME, May 1, 1939) is to be sung to beer and hot dogs at a Carnegie Hall pop concert. Next month, Menotti will sail for Europe to visit Milan, his home town, and do research in Paris for a ballet about Marcel Proust. He lives at Mt. Kisco, N.Y. in a glistening glass and wood house called "Capricorn," with Symphonist Samuel Barber, an aspiring poet named Robert Horan, and a female cocker spaniel. The cocker, Menotti says...
Campbell was nowhere near so adventurous when, during a visit at an Eskimo camp, he was offered a wife for the night. That offer (rejected) illustrates his theme: "The Eskimo is communistic-he shares everything. He shares his sled, his dogs and his wife. He does not explain life. He lives...
...Conservative Leader John Bracken rose in the House of Commons one day last week and hoped that the Prime Minister would have a "satisfactory stay and an early return." Then the CCF Party's M. J. Coldwell jumped up, eyes atwinkle, to add his wish for "a fruitful visit to Great Britain." Having thus playfully baited the Prime Minister into talking, they settled back to hear what he would...