Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Marguerite by returning to her a handkerchief which he has kept in his pocket ever since the day six months before when she dropped it in a theatre, to the one in which, dying, she struggles to her dressing table to rouge her pale cheeks when he comes to visit her for the last time, have become a master pattern for generations of romantic tragedies...
Second only to William Randolph Hearst for his personal scoop of King Edward's determination to marry the Woman of the Year (TIME, Nov. 2), in the journalistic history of the great Simpson Story the name of Newbold Noyes ranked high for his intimate reports of his visit to Fort Belvedere ten days before the abdication (TIME, Dec. 28). Rare authenticity attached to this extraordinary series because Mr. Noyes, 45, is the dignified associate editor of the Washington Star, a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, his father is president of the impeccable Associated Press, Mrs. Simpson...
...does India's caste system stick in his craw. He cites it as a method of spreading employment, as in the case of his Indian officer friend, who employed 25 servants, supported in all 62 people. He mentions the maharajah who went to pay a quiet overnight visit with 700 retainers, and was of such high caste that he always ate alone, when he gave a dinner party would have a half lemon put on his plate, out of courtesy. As for the condition of Indian women, Mr. Yeats-Brown flatly disagrees with Katherine Mayo (Mother India) that they...
Lola Kinel returned from a visit to the U. S. just in time to see the first revolution in Petrograd. It was just like a Russian Easter. "It was grand. All one had to do to feel tremendously exhilarated was to go out on the streets." With the Bolshevik Revolution everything got more serious. Lola was an anti-Bolshevik. She turned down a chance to become one of Trotsky's secretaries, got a job instead on the Russian Daily News, only English daily paper in Petrograd, and the last counter-revolutionary paper to be suppressed. She fell in love...
...appears now that not all in these groups can be cared for at Stillman. As long as the present emergency exists, upon notification, doctors of the Hygiene staff will visit men in their rooms and arrangements have been made by Mr. Durant and Mr. Westcott to send food to such men upon recommendation of the doctor...