Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Police reinforcements suppressed the revolt, but the girls won their point. Indoctrination continued without further hygienic advice. Whether the training program would bag any Communists was still uncertain. One trainee explained: "Men who visit me never appear to have political matters on their minds...
Britain's Princess Margaret Rose went off at 17 on her first official visit without her family (Queen Elizabeth stood at the palace entrance and waved goodbye). The Princess spent four days in Belfast, christened a ship, did fine, got back safe & sound...
Frederik of Norway made a fullblown, official state visit to Stockholm, thus giving royalty a fine excuse to dress to the teeth. One result: a news picture of Sweden's Gustaf and Denmark's Queen Ingrid which almost played its own champagne waltz...
...Clement Moore (in his famous poem A Visit from St. Nicholas*), eight tiny reindeer were enough to herald the coming of St. Nick's toy-laden sleigh. In Argentina last week, it took 20 reindeer to herald the coming of Perón's Five-Year Plan to Tierra del Fuego. The government had imported them to provide food, clothing and transportation to the 3,513 inhabitants of the wintry archipelago at the tip of South America. On arrival from Sweden, the antlered immigrants were welcomed by Minister of Marine Rear Admiral Fidel Anadon. Said Buenos Aires...
Ambassador Lewis W. Douglas' wife, Peggy, who had long been trying to get a prefabricated house for the Douglas ranch back in Arizona, finally found just what she wanted, but she couldn't have it. She found it-marked "Made in U.S.A."-on a visit to a housing project in Birmingham, England...