Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most enjoyable visit with the President. It is my belief that he will run for a third term...
Viewed simply as a divertissement competing for attention with local movies and plays, Maxwell Anderson's "Joan of Lorraine," which last night began a week's stay at the Brattle Theater, is certainly worth a visit. To regard the current offering of the Cambridge Summer Theater otherwise, is to get involved in bootless speculation on whether Bergman wouldn't have quirked an eyebrow here, or whether Shaw didn't render the line more felicitously there...
Where People Live. A Russian cannot move anywhere, say to Moscow, without the state's permission; if he is caught without a permit, he is sentenced to hard labor. He cannot even visit places like the Kremlin. I remember the Russian girl I met only once for a few minutes, during which we happened to walk past the Kremlin. Said she: "We Russians envy you foreigners. You can visit the Kremlin. We cannot...
...exactly the customary 30 minutes, had kind words for her husband's concern for Argentine underprivileged, his aid to war-torn countries of Europe, his contributions to papal charities. At interview's end, the Pope gave her a handsome rosary. Then Evita went on to visit the Borgia apartments (which are still haunted, Italians say, by the ghosts of libertine Pope Alexander VI and his daughter Lucrezia), and to pray at St. Peter's, where some 100 curious onlookers waiting under the front colonnade broke into applause...
...Medal. Not until 24 hours later did the Argentine Embassy to the Holy See receive the decoration to mark Señora Perón's visit. A Vatican messenger delivered a little red box containing the eight-pointed, diamond-laden Grand Cross of the Order of Pius IX,* with wide blue ribbon edged with red. It was for President Perón, will make him "Knight of the Great Ribbon...