Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Excalibur prepared to make an unscheduled stop Aug. 8 in Bermuda, and the Duke & Duchess said they would debark there although there were reports that Her Grace would go on to Manhattan to visit a plastic surgeon...
These good deeds done, generous Adolf Hitler scudded away from sweltering Berlin to cool Bayreuth for four hours of Gdtterddmmerung and a visit with British-born Winifred Wagner, daughter-in-law of the great Richard and a soul mate whose name was long coupled romantically with the Führer's. This year's Wagnerian Festival was in the spirit of Hitler's Europe: no admission tickets, fashionable guests or foreigners, but a popular lecture before each opera to explain to das Volk what Wagner is all about. It was Hitler's gift to the nation...
...time slipping away, which is Mrs. Miniver's main concern. Her frail net of words is flung to rescue from oblivion only the most available, most familiar things. She writes about the new car, Christmas shopping, the last day of the holidays, the first day of spring, a visit to a country house, where she has occasion to reflect on "the sound of a pack of upper-class English voices in full cry," and to be grateful for a rescuing Colonel Blimp. "Thank God for colonels, thought Mrs. Miniver; sweet creatures, so easily entertained, so biddably diverted from senseless...
...towering Andes, in Brazil the struggle between fascism and democracy was just as keen but less violent. The forces of democracy were represented by the U. S. S. O'Brien, U. S. destroyer No. 415, which put into the big coffee port of Santos on a good-will visit three weeks ago. Democracy won that round, not entirely to the pleasure of the Brazilians. Finding the illegal bicho lottery not much different from Harlem's numbers game, the bluejackets hopefully plunked down their nickels on No. 415. As luck would have it No. 0415 turned...
Some 20 years ago a young U. S. English instructor named Richard C. Gill decided to visit Ecuador. He liked the country so well that he bought 750 acres of jungle near the headwaters of the Amazon River. There Gill and his wife pioneered the first dude ranch in South America...