Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Whatever the comparative quietude of the press, there remains among Harvard men, a concern with the Dartmouth visit that years have made impervious to such things as elections, international issues, or tattered victory records. The invasion by a kindred student body brings with it opportunity to throw open dormitory and club doors, to renew acquaintance, to exchange opinion, to receive eulogies or brick-bats. Such an inclusively important feature of the fall could not be disregarded. It will not be. The gamble of the ticket draw and the subsequent seats in the wooden stands are minor hazards that will affect...
...name was Benjamin Gitlow. He was a Communist-six feet high, a 200-pounder with black hair, swart skin, bright black eyes, long fingers, very large feet, round shoulders. His friends suspected a Klannish plot, or strong-arm work by the American Legion, which had warned him not to visit Phoenix. William O'Brien, candidate of the Workers' (Communist) Party for Governor of Arizona, began searching small-town jails through the Southwest. Suspicion pointed to El Paso, in the western corner of Texas, then to Nogales, on the Arizona-Mexico Border. Attorney-General Sargent and Governor Hunt...
...Free State Government a bullet proof automobile was lent. At Portumna, they discovered that Irish firebrands had tried to burn the castle and had also set fire to several hayricks. Graciously then Viscount Lascelles penned a note to the Irish Free State expressing deep "regret if the visit to the Free State has . . . caused suffering to anyone in Ireland and hope that some way will be found whereby no vindictive action will be taken against the suspected and misguided men who might have considered that their visit has any political significance." Thereafter Princess Mary & husband were unmolested in Ireland...
...After a visit to America I have always noticed the healthy look of my countrymen. The secret drinking in this country is far worse than moderate open drinking." (President Sir George Syme of the Australian College of Surgeons.) Just a month ago New South Wales, Australian state, on a referendum vote defeated Prohibition four...
...evening parade of the Cadets, now encamped on the common, was visited on Tuesday and last evening by a numerous bevy of ladies. The scene must have been highly interesting, both from the transient object of their visit, and the brilliant surrounding scenery of the horizon, but a still greater interest and feeling would be excited in visiting the camp at sunrise, when the reveille is beat...