Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President's mother was interested in charity: the babies' wards of the New York Post-Graduate Hospital, the Henry Street visiting nurses, the Berry Schools (for needy boys & girls) in the hills of Georgia. She liked to travel. The year after her son went to live at the White House, when she was 79, Mrs. Roosevelt made another trip abroad. In London she took tea with Queen Mary at Buckingham Palace. They talked about their sons. Later the King and Queen of England came to visit her at Hyde Park...
...When the visit was all over Benito telegraphed Adolf an eloquent thank-you: "The fervid days which we passed together at your headquarters and the visits made to our troops engaged in the war against Bolshevism will remain . . . an uncancelable memory in my mind...
...Sala and Ouyerack together, with their disciples murdered three Eskimos who doubted that they were Messiahs. Two women and four children died two months later when a woman called Mina drove a whole village out on the ice of the Bay in a blizzard to wait for a visit from "Jesus...
...athlete who in 1885 did the 100-meter dash in 10.8 seconds-a record that stood for 15 years until broken by F. W. Jarvis; in Niles, Mich. A popular cut-rate eye specialist in Niles, he made no appointments, charged $2 for the first visit, $1 thereafter, took his patients from a queue that usually extended half a city block from his drab little office above a drugstore. He once estimated that in 38 years he had treated 1,500,000 cases...
Robert Louis Stevenson wrote The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde early in 1886. At the time he was living in Bournemouth, England, ill with tuberculosis, suffering recurrent hemorrhages of the lungs. Friends could visit him for no more than a quarter-hour at a stretch. One night his wife woke him from a particularly violent nightmare. "I was dreaming a fine bogey tale," he told her, and at once began sketching out the story of Jekyll and his evil companion-up to the transformation scene, where he had been awakened...