Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year, arrived in Manila and flatly declared that the Tydings-McDuffie Act meant what it said: the Philippines were to be cut loose in 1946. Wiggling Mr. Quezon suggested an international conference to guarantee the neutrality of his defenseless islands. This summer it was reported that he intended to visit Washington to complain that Commissioner Sayre had trespassed on his rights. Last week he had his resident commissioner in Washington issue a statement that his Government intends to buy at least $2,000,000 worth of commodities in the U. S. every year...
Lord Ogilvy is in fact no lord. His proper name is Captain the Hon. Lyulph Gilchrist Stanley Ogilvy. He was the second son of the seventh Earl of Airlie, who took him to Colorado on a visit in 1879, when Lyulph was a wild young blood of 18, and bought him a ranch near Greeley. There Lyulph spent 20 years living on his patrimony...
...story goes, he took his son, Jack David Angus Ogilvy, to Britain for a visit. His nephew, the ninth Earl, took him through the stables at Airlie, asked him to pick a winner for the Grand National at Aintree. Lyulph Ogilvy chose a scrawny, rawboned horse named Master Robert. Said young Airlie scornfully: "Why, that plug's not good for anything but plowing-that's what we are using him for now." But Ogilvy's choice was groomed for the Grand National, got home the winner...
...drowsy day in 1895 Catherine Evans, a farm girl from Dalton, Ga., journeyed back into the hills to visit a cousin. There she saw a pair of family-heirloom "candlewick" bedspreads, the handsomest bedspreads she had seen in all her born days. Back she went to Dalton. learned to make them herself. Soon hardly a wedding anywhere around was complete unless the bride got one of Catherine Evans' bedspreads...
...plot it is simple enough: at 63, Charlotte Kestner, née Buff, who in her youth inspired young Goethe to the writing of Werther, turns up in Weimar, ostensibly to visit relatives, more privately and far more shakily, in the thought of meeting Goethe once more, in the full-blown, chilly grandeur of his age. She is besieged by gawpers, beset by callers who wish to talk to and make some use of her; Goethe stages, in her honor, a formal luncheon; she meets him again, more intimately, in his theatre box; and that...