Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Back at their hotel they gave orders for their bags to be packed, set out next morning for Wasserloenburg Castle, Austria. They were looking forward to a rare treat, a visit from the Duke & Duchess of Kent who had been vacationing in Poland. This would be the first time that the ex-King had had a visit from a member of the Royal Family since his marriage...
When all was set for the Kents' reception, the Duke of Windsor received a telephone call from them announcing that they intended to postpone their visit, they were going to put in a day near Salzburg at the villa of Count Raimund von Hoffmannsthal and his wife, U. S. born Alice Muriel Astor. Rumor immediately went round that the Duchess of Kent, a former Princess of Greece who is "class-conscious" to a degree, and a bit snippy about being "the best dressed woman in the British Royal Family," had changed her mind about visiting her sister...
...Rome, meantime, British Ambassador Sir Eric Drummond, having sped back from a visit to his dentist in Vienna, called on Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano at the Palazzo Chigi, remained closeted for more than an hour...
...Paris stands a replica 20 ft. tall of the 152 ft. Statue of Liberty presented by France to the U. S. in 1886. Hitherto seen chiefly by bargemen on the Seine, the replica of Liberty, standing where it has stood since 1889, now is an unexpected feature of a visit to the Exposition's Colonial Section. Sturdy French and middle-class visitors generally had about decided last week that the place to go for hearty food and sound wines was the Brasserie des Metiers. Also crowded were the Midway joints for Alsatian sauerkraut. Even so the majority of Europeans...
Guldahl: "They cheered us plenty, whenever we made a mistake. ... As for the Carnoustie layout, it is not a fair one at all. ... I don't care if I never visit that country again...