Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last Tuesday I made my monthly visit to see my fortune teller. I found him sitting alone on an oriental rug gazing moodily into his crystal ball. His great white turban was wrapped around his head and a green jewel pinned on the front of it gleamed in the semi-darkness. He was in a deep trance, but I crinkled the bills in my wallet and he snapped...
...chose the Navy as a career so that he could "return Commodore Perry's visit." After graduation from Japan's Naval Academy in 1904, he fought as an ensign in the Russo-Japanese War aboard Admiral Togo's flagship, the Mikasa. In 1925 he was naval attaché in Washington; in 1934, Japan's delegate at the naval conference in London, where he urged the abolition of restrictions on naval building. While in London he was made a vice admiral; later he became Vice Minister of the Navy, then Chief of the Navy Aviation Department, finally...
Almost lost in the stir created by the visit of Winston Churchill and his military entourage was another European statesman: stubby, sad-eyed Eduard Benes, Czecho-Slovakia's President in Exile. At the White House, where he was an overnight guest, Eduard Benes got a warm welcome; Franklin Roosevelt promptly raised to Embassy status the U.S. Legation credited to the Czech Government in London (see p. 82). Then the two Presidents sat up far into the night, ranging over the field of Central European relations...
...visit was an eloquent demonstration of a fact which the War Manpower Commission is just now learning the hard way: men & women do not respond according to the slide rule. The Duke saw pleasant surroundings: red frame houses, a neat canvas mess tent, a medical clinic, shower baths, even a jukebox. ("What's that?" demanded Windsor, "a stove...
...since Finn Paavo Nurmi's memorable visit nearly a generation ago has a European athlete started for the U.S. with a better build-up than Gunder Hägg. Last summer he broke ten world's records at distances ranging from 1,500 to 5,000 meters (slightly over three miles). From sketchy reports U.S. track fans pieced together an extraordinary figure: a fireman by trade, so thin he looks like an inmate of a Jap prison camp, and yet rugged enough to run a mile in 4:04.6, two miles in 8:47.8, three miles...