Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With less than six months elapsed since his rushed visit to France and England, William Yandell Elliott, professor of Government, has been added to President Truman's special commission to investigate conditions in the Philippines...
...Harry Truman's appointments were with ailing Harry Hopkins, who gave him a long fill-in on Yalta and on foreign policy in general. The President also made another swift visit to Congress, where he had lunch with Speaker Sam Rayburn, and shook the hands of 350 Congressmen and a handful of page boys...
When Commodore Perry sailed into the harbor of Yokohama in 1854, he had no idea that he was contributing to a new esthetic movement in Europe. The pottery and ornaments which the Japanese began to export after Perry's visit were often wrapped in the Japanese equivalent of old newspapers-sheets of popular prints engraved by native artists. Within a few years, Parisian poets and painters were ransacking Japanese packing cases as though the crumpled prints inside were an accidental answer to an occidental prayer. For the prints were a pat expression of a slogan that was sweeping France...
...former Under Secretary was the guest yesterday of the University Press at a tea given at the Faculty Club, attended by prominent faculty members and Snydics of the Press. His visit was occasioned by the forthcoming publication of the first of a series of 23 volumes on the foreign relations of the United States with the leading countries of the world, to be written by members of the Harvard faculty and other authorities, and edited by Welles...
...patients, lying on their neat beds, lounging on the porches, tying fish flies, are bored, critical, worried. Day in & out, all they have to look forward to are the doctor's daily visit, a Gray Lady with some books, movies (if the patient is up to it) three times a week, and food three times a day. They talk to each other endlessly about every detail of their cures, tell outsiders horror stories (usually highly colored) of neglectful medical treatment...