Word: visitations
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...only the Yard's early strollers who could shout "Let it burn," since this second visit of the year by the local fire brigade came well before 9 o'clock. A short circuit in a fuse box had caused only a small blaze, but the smoke, which was heavy enough to fill the basement, prompted a janitor to call out the fire fighters...
...great day for the Americas. The man whom Mexico sent on a visit to the U.S.-her Foreign Minister-was in sober truth as great a statesman and as big a figure in hemisphere affairs as any to be found in Washington. Ezequiel Padilla was not only the man whose eloquence swayed the Rio Conference to support the United Nations; he was the symbol of the coming of age of the American republics...
...powerful Zeesen transmitters last week plain Jane Anderson (TIME, Jan. 19) was going great guns. The middleaged, neurotic, American-born Axis tub thumper ("Lady Haw-Haw" to the British) was setting the U.S. short-wave audience straight on the Nazi food supply with a luscious description of a visit to a Berlin cocktail...
...socialist Sir Stafford, during his visit to a land whose 352,000,000 people are mostly dirt poor, had chosen instead to live a mile away in the vine-covered, chintzy bungalow of Sir Andrew Gourlay Clow, Communications Member of the Government of India...
...urban sports as riding, swimming, tennis, dancing. Finch girls also take turns practicing housekeeping and interior decorating in a model apartment (Mrs. Cosgrave likes to tell about the Southern belle who once rushed excitedly into the dean's office and announced: "I've just cracked an egg"), visit settlement houses to tell children stories. They can take courses in income management, secretarial work, business...