Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...apropos nothing in particular, fished out his portfolio of German confessions one made by a certain Fred Hermann. This alleged "secret service agent" declared that he worked with other German hush-hush men in London early in the War, positively asserted that they learned of Earl Kitchener's projected visit to Russia on a British cruiser, radioed to Berlin information which enabled Germans to lay the mine which sunk...
...rather monotonous. This seems to be the main difference between cities of the old and new world. American cities all look about the same, and are really rather dull. 'In Germany, on the other hand. I can find little examples of mediaeval art in most every town I visit, and there seem to be more interesting things to visit, museums, for example, which are the first objects of every artist's search...
...Huey arrived in Cambridge yesterday afternoon, and, except for an informal visit with a few of his intimate friends, the world's foremost prophet spent a quiet evening. He refused to divulge the ultimate winner of the series, because, as he says, "Mr. Street and Mr. Mack are both friends of mine, and I don't want to discourage either of them until it is absolutely necessary...
Last week the exclusive National Academy of Sciences acknowledged the recent contributions of western scientists by holding its 67th annual meeting in Berkeley, Calif., the Academy's first visit west of the Mississippi. Some 100 members attended sessions divided among three of California's famed research centres : University of California at Berkeley, Stanford University at Palto Alto, California Institute of Technology at Pasadena. Some points made in speeches...
...many an ill-received lecture. He venerated Walt Whitman and was indignant at the squalor of his Camden surroundings. Mark Twain, James Whitcomb Riley, Eugene Field, John Burroughs, Edward MacDowell, James M. Barrie, Rudyard Kipling, Bernard Shaw, Israel Zangwill, Henry James ?he knew them all. On a visit to England, onetime Pitcher Garland met Cricketer Conan Doyle. Each upheld his favorite game: Doyle politely doubted the possibility of throwing a curve. Garland pitched a cricket ball at him, convinced...