Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Madame Pátain: she had not mixed in the affairs of Vichy, had not even shared her husband's hotel there. In Spain she had not been friendly with Seãora France since the Seãora had not seen fit to return her first ceremonial visit. During the German occupation she had busied herself with good works, such as preparing lay ettes for indigent infants, bandage-rolling in hospitals open to all classes...
...audience prestige and star power (Hollywood's second best) with the distribution outlets and capital of Britain's movie king, tall, pious Joseph Arthur Rank. It was a deal that every major Hollywood studio had hoped to turn. Selznick made it during Rank's recent Hollywood visit (TIME...
...first mistress, a cabaret singer, he met during a visit to Paris. She lured him to her door and, when Alger hesitated to enter, stamped her foot and snapped: "Don't stand here talking." (Horatio stopped talking.) Mistress No. 2 was an English harpy who abducted him from Mistress No. 1, then treated him cruelly. Alger ran away from her. Mistress No. 3 did not appear until 20 years later. When Alger showed her a list of the furniture he intended to buy, she asked, "Why two beds, Horatio...
...European." "What d'you mean I'm European?" snapped Eslanda; "I'm Negro . , . I'm African . . . I'm what you call primitive." "You're not primitive, my dear," said the dons, "you're educated and cultured, like us." Indignant, Eslanda decided to visit Africa (''my 'old country' ") and prove how primitive she was. This book describes her trip...
...Winchester Castle, "frankly perspiring" white passengers paid friendly visits to Africa-bound Anthropologist Eslanda and her eight-year-old son, Pauli, in their double first-class stateroom. But Eslanda noticed reluctance to discuss "the all-important subject of Native affairs," recognized her British callers as " 'Deep South' white folks . . . only more so." In Cape Town it was a relief to hear the white telephone operator say: "We hope you both have a pleasant visit, and we hope Mr. Robeson comes out soon." She took them to be "the voice of the little people." Blushes & Raw Meat. Africa...