Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PHILADELPHIA, HERE I COME! The American immigrant experience is a tale oft told; but in this engaging drama, Irish Playwright Brian Friel offers a fascinating visit to the Ould Sod for a glimpse of the wrenching departure that precedes each expectant arrival...
...Many recalled the secret visit that F.D.R. paid Lucy Rutherfurd at her 1,500-acre estate in Allamuchy, N.J., in September 1944, six months after the death of her husband. Detouring on a trip from Washington to Hyde Park, F.D.R.'s private train pulled into Allamuchy around 2:30 a.m. At mid-morning he was lifted off in his wheelchair, visited with Mrs. Rutherfurd until 5:30 p.m. State Trooper Joseph J. Skelly, now 55, recalled that F.D.R., then campaigning for his fourth term, "looked very drawn...
...Although Lucy was with Roosevelt on the day he died in April 1945, at Warm Springs, Ga., the reports of the visit indicate that both she and Mrs. Elizabeth Shoumatoff, an artist who was doing a watercolor portrait of F.D.R. (and who had previously painted Lucy), left the house as soon as F.D.R. was stricken, and went to Aiken, S.C. They were not present when he died...
...room and engage in a homosexual act. The decoy, called a "chicken," would then steal or take by force the victim's credit cards and identification, and give them to the ring's "shakemen." Days, weeks, or even months later, the shakemen, posing as police officers, would visit the victim. They would tell him that the chicken had been arrested for homosexual acts and had named the victim as one of his partners. The whole thing could be hushed up, they would add, with money...
...hammered home the theme that Strijdom was the only man who could save South Africa from the swart gevaar (black peril). So anti-British was the paper that it cheered Hitler and protested South Africa's participation in World War II. The only mention it made of the visit of King George VI in 1947 was a note warning its readers to avoid certain Johannesburg streets, which would be jammed with traffic because "some foreign visitors" were in town...