Word: visitants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...horse-racing fan, from the paddock-club swell to the tinhorn sport, which track he would choose if he could visit only one before he dies, and nine out of ten answers are: Saratoga...
...Custody still stands. Last week the 151st Franciscan Custos (custodian), arrived in Washington, D.C. for a visit. A merry, bespectacled, red-bearded Italian, Most Rev. Albert Gori, the Custos (also called "His Paternity") put up at the Franciscan monastery of Mt. St. Sepulchre. There he was visited by many a priest, including well-waisted Rector Joseph M. Corrigan of nearby Catholic University. Object of His Paternity's trip to the U.S.: to thank U.S. givers, to rally more givers to the Holy Land shrines. The Washington monastery, called the Commissariat and College of the Holy Land for the U.S.A...
Meanwhile, the German press called Sir Edmund's visit a "secret council of war" and railed against "English interference" and "blustering." More German and Polish military activity was noticeable in and around Danzig, and German Air Marshal Hermann Göring announced that this year's German air maneuvers would begin August 1, and would be held on the Netherlands frontier. Just as another warning to Poland's allies as well as to Germany that Poland would not accept a "Munich deal" over Danzig, Marshal Smigly-Rydz gave an interview to the Paris newspaper, Le Petit Parisien...
...Faces. Unknown in pre-war Spain, but conspicuous all over the country last week, were the amiable Italian features of Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano, who wound up his visit as the anniversary celebration began. Exhilarated after eight days of triumphal speechmaking, tours to battlefields, official visits and intrigue, Count Ciano stayed up till 3 a. m. at a brilliant party given in his honor in the walled Moorish gardens of the Alcazar in Seville-a palace that was once the favored retreat of royalty during Holy Week, a national monument under the Republic-took a warship for home...
Dusky Prince Batoula, 44-year-old heir apparent to a native "throne" in Senegal, French West Africa, corrected last week the impression that he was going to make a Princess out of Harriet Mercer, a Harlem laundress whom he met on a recent visit to New York City. In a darkened salon of his Paris apartment His Highness, who already has four wives in Africa, told a United Press correspondent that he had offered to pay Miss Mercer's steamship fare and expenses to Paris only because he wanted her as a secretary and an English teacher...