Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rumormongers tried to brew more bitter tea between Giraud and General Charles de Gaulle. The facts: Giraud-De Gaulle relationships improved daily. During Giraud's visit, one gay, demonstrative crowd greeted him with cheers of "Vive Giraud!" Giraud silenced them, cried: "There are two generals at the head of the French National Committee, General de Gaulle and myself. Now, with me-'Vive De Gaulle!'" The Corsican crowd cheered...
...green, grey weekend in 1896, George Bernard Shaw (see above) went down to Stratford St. Andrew in Suffolk to visit his good Fabian friends, Sidney and Beatrice Webb. The other guest was an idealistic Irish girl named Charlotte Frances Payne-Townshend: she came from County Cork; her father was a millionaire. After the holiday Shaw wrote his beloved correspondent, Actress Ellen Terry: "I am going to refresh my heart by falling in love with her. I love falling in love...
...airplane in Moscow last Sunday stepped a benign ecclesiastic in a purple cassock and cap. He was Britain's No. 2 primate, Dr. Cyril Forster Garbett, Archbishop of York. He came to visit Patriarch Sergius, Metropolitan of All Russia, a fortnight after Joseph Stalin had given his blessing to the Russian Orthodox Church (TIME, Sept. 13), a few days after the 76-year-old Patriarch had been enthroned in his jampacked Cathedral with Ritualistic pomp not seen in Russia since the Bolshevik revolution. Following his enthronement, the Metropolitan blessed the Soviet Government (whose members, like all Communists, are atheists...
...Flying to China, India, Australia was famed writer and preacher Daniel A. Poling. Pastor of Philadelphia's Baptist Temple, president of the World's Christian Endeavor Union, a worldwide youth organization, Poling will visit U.S. chaplains and troops, write articles for the Christian Science Monitor and the widely read monthly Christian Herald, of which he is editor in chief...
Veronica Lake (with her hair up) makes a good deal of her short, tense visit to the film. Claudette Colbert most successfully sidetracks her prettiness for the more urgent priority of suggesting an exhausted young woman in coveralls. Paulette Goddard is easy to like in the fattest role in the film. She has a comic warmth and bounce reminiscent of the late Jean Harlow..Even easier to like is 4F (but outwardly rugged) Sonny Tufts, whose stumbling hands and voice develop wrinkles in the comedy of inarticulate love-making which are likely to become official among female cinemaudiences...