Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pope Pius' visit to King Victor Emmanuel late in December was significant because...
...first visit by a Pope to any ruler of modern Italy...
...Last week Theophilus Sidorovici, leader of the Rumanian youth movement and reputed agent of King Carol II, was in Rome, where he gave the Pope a Rumanian carpet and mosaic of the Virgin, gave Premier Mussolini and Foreign Minister Count Ciano King Carol's regards. Hungarians, viewing this visit with suspicion, let it be known that Count Csáky himself would soon go to Rome...
When the Marquis de Lafayette paid his final visit to the U. S. in 1825, the hawk-nosed old hero was persuaded to sit for a new type of life mask, the invention of a young New York sculptor named John Henri Isaac Browere. From the mask Sculptor Browere made a widely .acclaimed bust. That gave him a grand idea: do the same by every American great and near great, get Congress to house his busts in a national gallery. Till he died of cholera nine years later, Browere worked busily toward his goal. But Congress never, built the gallery...
...fear into the hearts of the Adamses, Girards, and Astors. Vag would like to have followed him around his house and farm, to have heard him talk about his thoroughbred horses, his violin, and his scientifically rotated crops. As the next best thing, Vag is determined to make another visit to Monticello this spring. In the meantime, he is going to drop in on Professor Buck's lecture and question period on Thomas Jefferson in the "History of the South" at 12 o'clock this morning in Harvard...