Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Incidentally, rumors persisted that Mr. Coolidge may go away for a vacation. He has often denied this and is known to be impatient when the press continues to promulgate rumors which he has denied. The latest rumor was that he might visit Plymouth, Vt., for ten days. If he should go home for ten days to help his father bring in the hay, it would fit in admirably with the Home Town Club's propaganda...
Secretary Mellon's visit, labelled causa sanitatis, has been very quiet. In exactly what important business he is engaged, the world does not know, but that it is important business hardly anyone can doubt. After all, isolation is largely a matter of form. Political isolation cannot restore the real isolation which was destroyed, not by the Wilson regime, but by peaceful com merce over a period of decades...
...Archepiscopal Palace at Malines, Belgium, Mr. Hughes received from Cardinal Mercier a degree of Doctor of Laws from Louvain University, and said: "My visit to your country will leave a very deep impression...
Major E. D. Metcalfe, a temporary equerry to the Prince of Wales, arrived in Manhattan to make arrangements for the Prince's visit to the U. S. at the end of this month. Said he: "His Royal Highness is one of the best men to hounds in England. When you consider that he hunts three times a week and rides as hard as he does, it is surprising he doesn't have more falls. If he weren't the Prince of Wales his falls would not be mentioned as anything extraordinary. I train all the Prince...
Siegfried's visit was eminently successful. He is now back in the town of Bayreuth, Bavaria, famed for the first presentations of the great Wagner-cycles. There the fruits of Siegfried's U. S. journey have made possible the resumption of the Bayreuth Festivals, under the auspices of Frau Cosima Wagner, natural daughter of Abbe Liszt, divorced wife of Dr. Hans von Bulow, widow of Richard Wagner, mother of Siegfried. Eighty-six years old, she dominates everything. Though her once sharp eyes are filmed with age, her aristocratic nose appears to be more pointed than ever. She attends rehearsals...