Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...evening's end, Liberals were sure they knew what was up. King's visit and the support of federal bigwigs for God-bout indicated that Ottawa's Liberal big guns would move to Quebec for the provincial elections. If the whole federal battery was going to work on Duplessis, that swashbuckling politico might be in for some rough times, even if the Tories came to the support of his Union Nationale...
...Single Visit. For over ten years a steady stream of diabetics, attracted by the Kaadts' optimistic advertising, passed through the old brothers' clinic. Most of the patients stayed three days ($10 a day) and went home carrying jugs of the "magic medicine" ($30 a gallon). So many hopeful sufferers came that in twelve years the clinic is believed to have done a $6,000,000 business...
Patients were not required to return for a second visit. Some died (of diabetes); others developed the sores of diabetic gangrene. One little boy was told by the kindly old doctors that it would be quite all right for him to eat ice cream again. He went to a birthday party, ate heartily and sank into a diabetic coma...
...Percenters. In 16 turbulent years Eddie Arcaro has ridden 11,868 races. He has won 2,223 of them. One reason why Eddie Arcaro is still at it (the average jockey lasts only four or five years) is that he seldom has to visit steam boxes to keep his weight down. Most jockeys resort to all the tricks, including taking cathartics, to lose weight, and sometimes lose their health as well...
...back as February, Palestine's famed Hebrew-speaking Habimah players had announced a six-week visit to Broadway. The sets and costumes were shipped well ahead; but when the company set out six days before the opening, they found Lydda airport in Arab hands and had to be secretly air-ferried to Athens. From there, in dribs & drabs, and by divergent routes, they reached New York...