Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...East Side drunk wanders in. Sometimes a motor car strikes a pedestrian outside the Institute's park and he gets first aid in the hospital. But usually the medical staff have lots of time for the serene preoccupations of Science, are agitated upon rare occasions by the visit of a curious Rockefeller...
...year in which he became Captain of the Royal Guards, the young giant married Alexandrine, Duchess of Mecklenburg. Christian has always been touchy about his height (6 ft. 6 in.), remarks petulantly "I know. I am too long." Last March when he passed through Berlin he stopped to visit Dictator Hitler- whose proximity makes it expedient for Denmark to be chummy-the German Government shrewdly put at Christian's disposal the specially built car of the late President von Hindenburg, another giant. The Danish King was thus able to drive tophatted to the Realmleader without crouching...
...have felt that conditioning of the young has advanced to the point where a certain amount of contact with the bourgeois world will be safe. For 500 hand-picked Soviet citizens there has been rumored a three-week excursion to France, Russia's one big ally, and a visit to the Paris Exposition. This will cost the workers 5,000 rubles each (officially about $1,000) and will include all expenses. In Paris the Comrades will receive 100 francs (about $4.50) fun money...
...their shaky railroad empire. They had the okay of the F. R. A. but needed one from the Federal court in their own district. Their regular judge had just died. Senator Squires' job would be to see that the right judge took his place. The Senator and Darnell visited the Esterbrooks' empire estate to arrange terms. Darnell discovered shy young Bob Esterbrook, whose reserve soon vanished on his later visit to Washington. The Senator got his $100,000 fee. a quarter down, the balance to be paid C. O. D. But delivering the goods was worth every cent...
...does not have the leading role, (there is but one sunset scene, and that one is very effective); it is the first film in many years that Miss Gaynor has looked the age of the person she portrays; it should be the first film you see on your next visit...