Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scheduled to fly to the U.S. this month on an official visit, swarthily handsome young (30) Mohamed Reza Pahlevi, the Shah of Persia, made some occidental preparations. He hired a pressagent, white-haired Henry Suydam, who took a leave as chief editorial writer for the Newark Evening News and began setting them up in Washington's National Press Club...
Mestrovic, who now teaches at Syracuse University, added that the Yugoslav ambassador also had been urging him to return, if only for a visit. "He said that if I wished I could go incognito. But I will go to Belgrade incognito only when Tito goes to Moscow incognito...
There, he asked to see the 1938 guest register. It was missing ; it had been "borrowed" by Canwell committee investigators and never returned. But Guthman found an ex-housekeeper who clearly recalled the 1938 visit and added a corroborating detail: Mrs. Rader was pregnant...
When she makes a visit to the temple in Jerusalem, she gets a premonition of her destiny in the words of an aged visionary who points a bony finger at Miriam and cries: "Mark her well, you women . . . From her womb shall Israel's Redeemer come...
...retained her virtue at the expense of her father who was killed by Juan in a duel over the attempted seduction. Don Juan, a veteran in Hell, is seen to have profited by his earthly satiation with the life of the senses, and he is prepared to visit Heaven to achieve self-fulfilment. In analysis, it may be hard to see how this idea could ever be interesting in dramatic form. But the sparkling prose of the philosophic discussions is delightful for its wit, its audacity and its insight...