Word: visitant
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
There was one note of encouragement. Back from his two-day visit in Missouri (where his candidate for Congress ran last in a field of four), Harry Truman threw a chicken dinner at the White House for all living ex-chairmen of the Democratic Party. Jim Farley could not make it; he was en route to Europe. Neither could John J. Raskob, who had already predicted victory for Tom Dewey. But such oldtimers as Ohio's George White, who managed the unsuccessful Cox-Roosevelt campaign of 1920, and ex-Attorney General Homer Cummings arrived to assure the President that...
...boss Communist, had benefited by rest and good doctoring. He moved home from the hospital, "notably improved," 17 days after his shooting by a would-be assassin. But he was going to keep right on resting in private for a while. He asked everybody "not to ask to visit me or to talk to me even for the shortest periods of time...
...score his beat, Reporter Bigart had to "disappear" for two weeks. He was in Belgrade, and had told his office he was going to Rome to buy clothes. The first the Trib knew of his perilous mission was when the visit was broadcast over the rebel radio. (The U.S. Embassy at Athens, still nervous after Folk's murder, passed the word to the Trib that it would not be responsible for Bigart's safety...
Soulima, the next to the youngest of Stravinsky's three living children, has just flown in from Paris for his first visit with his father in nine years. In Europe, Soulima is known as the foremost interpreter of his father's piano music-so much so that he has to beg impresarios to let him play something else. Says Soulima: "I say to them, 'I will play Stravinsky if I can also play some Chopin, Schumann or Mozart.' Now they...
...eyes of the world, Tolstoy was no more than a Count who was regarded as a promising young author. But when he began to visit the Bers in their Moscow home, the whole household felt that "he did not resemble an ordinary guest." Tolstoy roamed all over the house, talked to adults, children and servants with such impartial eagerness and sympathy that "wherever he was, life became interesting and significant." He never knew how much they all loved him because, as he often told Tatyana, he "was convinced that he was repulsively ugly...