Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among the dozen or more places they will visit will be a big stone-and-stucco house set in the rolling, rocky hills of New York's Dutchess County, overlooking the Hudson River valley. There the first act of the envoys will probably be the placing of flowers on a grave in the center of a hedge-boxed rose garden...
...would be Britain's first state banquet since the visit of President Albert Lebrun of France, early in 1939, and the King planned to have everything in royal style. The palace chefs would have the night out; special caterers have been engaged to provide as lavish a feast as possible in austere Britain. Wines, including Krug champagne of the famous 1928 vintage, have been carted over from the royal cellars at Buckingham. Servants will don their prewar liveries of scarlet & gold and blue & gold...
...bravely as a match flickering in the night, the Paris L'Ordre sought cheer for mankind. "Visit the Hostel of Three Mallets in the Latin Quarter," it advised. There, in subterranean chambers, the visitor sees medieval instruments of torture. St. Catherine's Wheel is most gruesome. It rests on a base studded with nails. A victim bound to the wheel was raised or lowered in relation to the base; as the instrument turned, his flesh was torn at the desired speed and depth...
...Once you leave the Hostel," concluded L'Ordre, "the nightmare is ended. Outside, the air is fresh, the sky blue. How sweet is our era of the atomic bomb! If you don't think so, visit the Three Mallets and forget your torments by reliving those of others...
...second half of the play satirizes a group of modern debunkers who skeptically visit St. Anthony's tomb, gloatingly find it empty. But after they have gone Anthony reappears, praising the faith of a poor postcard hawker who has continued to believe...