Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...down." His first marriage to Ruth Chatterton ended in an amiable divorce and Brent's best friend is Ralph Forbes, another Chatterton ex-husband. His second marriage, to one Constance Worth in Mexico, ended in an unamiable divorce. This year Ann Sheridan persuaded him to make his first visit to Giro's, got him to promise to take her to his first premiere. When Brent discovered the premiere was on the night of his weekly navigation class (he recently bought a new 85-ft. yawl), he let the Oomph Girl down...
...Your grave omission was not pointing out that the position of contributing editor carries no salary, no duties, and no responsibility for editorial policy. In the past 13 years, Frank and Mumford have visited the office seldom, contributed little to our pages. We hope they will still visit us, shall gladly print their contributions when they write things we feel are worth printing...
Climax. When he arrived in Washington, Lord Lothian threw open the diplomatic windows, beat the dust out of some old customs, hung some diplomatic taboos out on the line in plain sight of the neighbors. He held a press conference after his first visit to the White House as Ambassador, talked freely with reporters, broadened the circle of Embassy guests from the traditional group of highly placed Government officials who are also social, made contacts with New Dealers as well as with old Rhodes Scholars. Except for a little sniping, he has not been criticized as a propagandist, has been...
...long, camouflage-dappled touring car Benito Mussolini last week ventured, four days after fighting ceased, into the thin slice of Alpine territory which the French, retreating before the Germans, yielded to his soldiers. It was his first visit to French soil since becoming a dictator 18 years ago. More daring last week -and less lucky-was bronze-bearded Air Marshal Italo Balbo, one of Mussolini's original Quadrumvirate in 1922, "exiled" since 1933 (when he won great publicity for a mass seaplane flight from Rome to Chicago) as Governor and Military Commander of Libya...
...Germans who have been confined behind guarded frontiers since 1933 it was reported that mileage tickets are to be issued shortly by the German Railway so that without waiting for fare adjustments following the war they can gratify long-harbored desires to visit Paris and the Riviera. Chief object of interest, however, was the Maginot Line, now in occupied territory, and boulevard gossip in Berlin indicated that it would soon become the world's most elaborate and expensive tourist attraction...