Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...graduate of Canton's Union Theological College, she had been attached to Kowloon's Anglican Church, whose congregation is composed mainly of educated, professional Chinese. After the Japanese captured Kowloon, no Anglican priest could visit the parish to administer the sacraments. Deaconess Lei reportedly escaped through the Japanese lines, reached Bishop Hall. Defying all canon and precedent, he ordained her, sent her back to Kowloon as its priest...
Noel Busch was the first non-Moslem journalist in a century to visit Riad, Saudi Arabia's capital, and Ibn Saud was a journalist's dream assignment: one of the most colorful and least-written-about of the world's rulers. But in his second book, What Manner of Man?, Author Busch set himself the task of discussing the world's most-written-about head of state. He approached the subject of Franklin D. Roosevelt with precisely the same mixture of curiosity, detachment and aplomb that he took to Riad. The result is, with the possible...
Gadgets and Dowagers. Einstein, whose love of music and sailing is well known, also likes to visit 5-&-10 stores, admiring their glittering gadgets. When a friend gave him a zipper bag, Einstein delightedly zipped and unzipped it again & again. He hates strenuous exercise, pretentious people. The usual conversational approach of dowagers when introduced to him is to ask him to explain his relativity theory. Einstein sometimes obliges, soon reduces them to stunned silence...
...India, where "the spires of the Jain temples pierced up through the grey and white mists. . . ." There the tiny, fantastic, incompetent Maharajah put on religious festivals for them ("Tell me, Mr. Dickinson, where is God?"), talked English literature ("See, Mr. Dickinson, that balcony - did Hamlet climb up there to visit Juliet?") and gave Mr. Dickinson his palace. Says Forster: "He forgot that he had given it to me only two days before...
...France Welles experienced a sensation of general expectancy. President Albert Lebrun seemed to have lost his memory. From ex-Premiers Blum and Herriot, Welles derived only the feeling that France's days were numbered. After his visit to Blum, Welles received 3,000 insulting letters from Frenchmen who resented his calling...