Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hotel Belvedere, Baltimore, a suite of 26 rooms, especially decorated and furnished with antiques was placed by the Municipality at Queen Marie's disposal for her two-hour visit...
...tone poem about a Prophet, in phrases and measures twisted to tortuous futurity by one Ernest Pingoud, 26-year-old Swiss with a Russian upbringing, became articulate; for in the gloom was hidden the Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Leopold Stokowski. But the audience was slightly disconcerted during this notable visit. Desiring to "intensify the mystery and eloquence and beauty of the music" Conductor Stokowski had made his men invisible, with only steady little stars on their music stands. Obliged, nevertheless, to retain his own visibility, he had arranged for a spotlight directly over his head. This was what disconcerted...
...while children cradled in German struggled to recite in French. M. Poincaré then requested the children to recite in German and noted carefully the difference in their proficiency. Said he, at Metz: "The children grow each year more proficient in our beautiful tongue. The difference since my last visit two years ago is most marked...
...greetings. A third delegation of "personal friends of Queen Marie," likewise on the cutter, included Judge ("U. S. Steel") Gary and Samuel ("Sam") Hill of Seattle, Wash., potent railroader, who extended to Queen Marie the invitation to dedicate his Seattle museum, "Maryhill" which provides the technical reason for her visit to the U. S. Seventy minutes after she landed at the Battery, Queen Marie and her party left Manhattan for Washington. On the way from the City Hall to the Pennsylvania Station the crowds became so unmanageable that the royal party was forced to enter the station by a side...
...England first established friendly relations with them in order to procure ports from which to raid the Spaniards, for her buccaneers. Oldman, after a visit to London, received a royal commission from Charles Stuart and ruled his people in nominal independence...