Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under allegation 21, that an inmate received a visit from a woman friend, and was later found a mile and a half beyond the walls, driving the woman's car, there was considerable discussion. Then the following took place...
...Boston Son James smiled when he learned that his mother had written to him about Child Labor, said he would answer her inquiry privately. Before the week was out he went to the White House for a visit. To newshawks there he admitted that soon after arriving he had discussed Child Labor with his mother, but had not changed his mind. "We had," he said, "a very nice discussion about...
...compositions in British Who's Who) Pomp and Circumstance has the lusty. red-blooded quality which characterizes the best of Elgar's music. When he was recognized by the throne, Elgar started writing too much occasional music. He celebrated King George's coronation, his visit to India in 1912, his recovery from pneumonia in 1929. But having found an important native composer. England never stopped praising him, rated him a worthy successor of Beethoven and Brahms...
...first the miners were very hospitable. Family after family invited her to come visit them. She got used to sleeping two and three in a bed, but night alarms made her nerves jumpy. At the Gietradis house, where the whole family slept in one room, she was warned to look out for the old man, but what disturbed her rest was the epileptic lodger throwing a fit. On a visit to the disreputable nearby settlement of Seldom Seen, where the women were all prostitutes and the men mostly black, a half-crazy Negress attacked her in the middle...
...penchant for 'bums.' " By the time she was 14 she had run away from home twice to see the world. At 17, her parents not concurring, she got a job in a corset factory, was discharged for inefficiency at the end of a week. She thinks her visit to "Avelonia" "a pretty good adventure. But the most terrific experience I have ever been through was writing about it." Her first book, I Went to Pit College is the March choice of the Literary Guild...