Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What the motive of the man was also remained undetermined, although the constabulary concluded that "he probably was up there to visit his girl friend...
...Duke of Windsor was in London for a short visit, but the wedding to which he and the Duchess had not been invited was no longer a live issue; they now planned to find their...
...young London barrister had no intention of switching careers when he went back to Oxford, that day in 1912, to visit his old tutor. But the fellows of Brasenose College asked him to lunch. "It was a marvelous lunch," W.T.S. Stallybrass remembers, "with Château Yquem and green Chartreuse." When it was over, the fellows asked him to stay and join them. He said yes-if he could always dine that well...
Stallybrass is unfailingly cordial to undergraduates when they first "come up," unfailingly remote for some time after. Yet he often stays up late at night, writing letters that follow his favorites-to imperial outposts, to careers in politics and science. When they come back for a visit, he insists on snapping their pictures and putting the pictures in his already cluttered study. His dinners, embellished with gleaming silver from three huge chests and the best of wines, are famous. Over such a dinner, paunchy W.T.S. Stallybrass, with a puff on his filter-tip cigaret, likes to repeat the words...
...prison. The haberdasher from Jackson vies for the laurels of the little corporal from Munich. . . . Who is this new apostle of imperialism? ... A man who loves bow ties, wears his pants two inches shorter than ordinary, and . . . has no other external marks of distinction. . . ." (After a visit to the U.S. last year, Russian Writer Ilya Ehrenburg had waxed sarcastic over the mysterious interest the U.S. press has in personalities and personal likes: "A reporter [wrote about] the burning problem of why the 'red writer' preferred buttons to zippers . . . on my trousers...