Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newsmen next day the Duke & Duchess were cordial, diplomatic, blandly evasive. With a tactful eye to U. S. tourist trade, the Duchess hoped that a "great many Americans will come to the Bahamas." The Duke talked of a visit to the U. S., quipped: "The highest building when I was there last was the Woolworth. That's dating...
...further remarkable because the putative father of her baby was also only 13. Of the paternity there can be no absolute certainty, but the little fellow had no doubt himself and even went so far as to borrow his elder brother's long trousers and bowler hat to visit his offspring with becoming dignity. He had indeed performed the . . . impossible, for it is an 'irrebuttable presumption' of English law that a boy under 14 cannot procreate a child." Next week the world's youngest mother, six-year-old Lina Medina of Peru, and her 15-month...
Back to London one night last week went Prime Minister Winston Churchill, after a surprise visit to the northeast coastal defenses. Again he had proved his tremendous popularity with the English people. With enthusiasm they cheered him as he drove slowly along the coast, solidly British in his pin-striped business suit, his high-crowned black hat. With easy friendliness he responded to the welcome, stopping often to chat and joke with the villagers and soldiers. Good-humoredly he posed for cameramen, tinkering with a U. S.-made tommy gun (see cut), chewing on a big cigar. Playfully he watched...
...enemies have we?" He has no reverence for England: six months before the war, he warned that if England and Italy should ever fight, French-Canadians in Quebec might side with Italy. Nor has he any reverence for authority. When the King and Queen dined with him on their visit to Montreal, he got the conversation started by studying a list of conventions prepared for him, one of which was that he should not open the conversation. He has consistently opposed conscription, an issue which in 1917 split French and English Canadians wide open...
...first Patriarch in history to visit the U. S. docked in Manhattan last week, settled at the Gramercy Park Hotel. His Beatitude Eshai Mar Shimun, 119th Patriarch of Assyria and head of the Church of the East (which Westerners know as the Nestorian Church), had come to see his 70,000 fellow countrymen in the U. S., do something if possible for his persecuted brethren elsewhere. The Assyrian Christians have had a long record of persecution. They have been a minority in the mountains of Kurdistan and the plains of Syria and Iraq since Mohammedanism's rise...