Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...didn't exactly collide with any undergraduate dog breeder, but the visit turned up a gent whose mother raises retrievers, another (Class of '06) who appreciated fine pointers, and a yokel from New Hampshire who lived for boxers and vice versa...
...Colonel Bodley's letter re Eton's whipping block [TIME, Jan. 24], there are a few reminders of a visit to Eton . . . The whipping block . . . had the birch rod standing beside it looking like a broom for sweeping garden leaves, but with a very stout handle. My wife said: "That wouldn't hurt much." The reply was "Madam-I would like you to remember there's nothing between the boy and the birch...
...Dewey was at pains to disarm any suspicion that he still had ambitions for the presidency. He was glad to be in Washington for a visit, he declared. "At one time last year, I expected to come for a longer stay. I was under the impression, which was shared by a great many others, that I had a clear call to duty. But last November it turned out to be some other kind of noise. Instead ... I have been graduated at a comparatively early age to the role of elder statesman, which someone has aptly defined as a politician...
...Louis Stephen St. Laurent, Prime Minister of Canada, paid his first state visit to Washington last week. Actually, despite his striped pants, stiff collar and courtly manners, he was just like an old friend dropping in for a chat. There was no state dinner: Good Neighbor St. Laurent was entertained at a stag luncheon in Blair House with 14 other guests-mostly top-drawer U.S. officials...
...Cathedral, then went to lunch as guest of Secretary of State Dean Acheson. When he left for home (by train, because sleet prevented flying over the St. Lawrence), St. Laurent could safely leave the i-dotting details to be worked out on the embassy level. During the 45-hour visit, Harry Truman, no linguist, had almost learned how to pronounce his guest's name. It came out "San Loran...