Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...read that handsome King Leopold III and his brother Prince Charles would next day lead a pilgrimage of many thousands to Marche-les-Dames where King Albert three years ago fell to his death from a mountain (TIME, Feb. 26, 1934), that the widowed Queen Mother Elisabeth would visit the spot after the pilgrims had gone. Troops, war veterans, civilian organizations were to be drawn up in solemn silence while King Leopold reviewed them...
...hear that the chorus was of men. "I would like to see them in their costumes," she laughed. "The hairier they are the better, I suppose," Jack Granara, publicity man for the theater, assured us that if time could possibly be found, Ina Ray would make he first visit to Cambridge, before her present engagement ends, and show the Pudding cast a thing or two about dance routines...
Hopping off after a week's sightseeing in Rome, Colonel & Mrs. Charles Augustus Lindbergh paused at Palermo, Sicily, stopped at Tripoli to visit Governor-General Italo Balbo, flew on to Cairo...
During his coming two-week visit to Hollywood Jean Harlow announced she would be hostess to chief G-Man J, Edgar Hoover, who met her at the President's Birthday Ball in Washington, staged a machine-gun demonstration for her amusement...
...swart Italian who was born Angelo Siciliano 44 years ago and brought to Brooklyn by his parents at 11, Mr. Atlas by his own advertised account was originally a puny "no-account runt," a "sickly, skinny, run-down weakling weighing only 97 pounds." His inspiration came on a visit to the Brooklyn Institute of Arts & Sciences, where he was so impressed by the plaster-cast Greek heroes that he thenceforth devoted his life to his body. His present title dates from the early 19203 when Publisher Bernarr Macfadden was running beautiful body contests. Charles Atlas won so regularly that...