Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...College and school officials welcomed a pastor who came such a distance to pay parish calls. Headmasters hauled boys out of class, said the visit would do them more good than a lost half-hour of math. Faculty and students alike agreed that Mr. Price's was the best possible way to keep young people in touch with their parishes, to counteract adolescent apathy toward the Church...
Once Miller got in to see Jesse Jones-a visit that ended quickly with both men hopping mad. Afterward he wrote to Jones: "You are so cloistered I do not think you know what is going on in your office. . . . RFC's officiousness, ill will bad temper and manners have interested me." When he heard that one of Jones's secretaries had described him as "obnoxious and a nuisance," he wrote in Hickory News: "The reason I am a nuisance . . . is that I remind these men of their carelessness, inefficiency and incompetence." Such colorful invective appealed to anti...
Miller's forthcoming visit to Washington is not to apply for another loan. Instead he has a better idea: to organize a new operating company and offer stock to Jesse Jones and other RFC officials. Now said Mr. Miller, he would learn once and for all "whether New Dealers have the courage to invest in American enterprise. I should have some fun interviewing the directors of RFC and trying to get their names on the dotted line." What he expected to have on the line when his trip ended: dots...
Scuttling along the street to visit caustic, mountain-maiming old Sculptor Gutzon Borglum in the Chicago hospital to which he had retired to treat a minor ailment, his wife slipped on the icy concrete, fractured her arm, joined her famed husband in the hospital...
...never in the world cut out to be a street cleaner and there's no use reaching for the stars." Cagney loses the neighborhood strawberry blonde (Rita Hay worth) to a chiselling contractor (Jack Carson) and on rebound marries her girl friend (Olivia de Havilland). Later they visit the contractor, grown rich, where they dine under newfangled electric light. "Isn't it dangerous?" asks Olivia. Says Carson: "Not if you pay the bill...