Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years between Jesus' visit to the temple, where His questioning astounded learned men, to His baptism in the Jordan, little is known. Dr. Erskine speculates: "Whether, as some people would like to believe, he ever married and had a son, is an irrelevant question. What is pertinent is his capacity for love and his genius for parenthood. . . . It seems to me clearly indicated in all the meetings of Jesus with women who were not his relatives that somewhere in his life, in some episode of which we are told nothing, a woman had hurt him deeply...
...Duke of Windsor's visit home ended, he flew back to Paris after telling reporters, "I shall certainly be coming back, and next time the Duchess will be coming with me." But he didn't say when...
There the President made a tour of the town, dropped in to visit relatives of Reconversion Boss John W. Snyder, who was with him. Then there was a 25-mile drive through the swampy cotton lands to Caruthersville (pop. 6,612), in the southeast "boot" of Missouri. When the President arrived at the Majestic Hotel's packed lobby, his face showed deep lines of weariness...
...like something seen through a microscope. Though they seem easy, Mérida gets his striking half-old, half-new effects after painstaking study; the raw, vivid colors are invariably surprising, and the figures, however grotesque, seem very much alive. Some of the paintings were the result of a visit to Texas. "The land there is as flat as a sea," says Mérida. "The sky eats men and houses alike. It is the most beautiful thing you can imagine...
Still in their minds was Adolf Hitler's triumphal visit to Paris in June, 1940. He nursed three ambitions: to sign the armistice at Compiègne, to visit Napoleon's tomb and to enjoy a performance of the Paris Opéra. Hitler and his entourage were solicitously shepherded around the Opéra by agile, gypsylike ballet master Serge Lifar and the massive pro-German Wagnerian soprano, Mme. Germaine Lubin. Next night the opera company put on a command performance...