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Word: visiting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...incredible that Actor Matthews could not find a single laundry in Manhattan (including the Champion, which boasts of a large theatrical clientele) to launder his linens satisfactorily. This seems even more unbelievable, since a number of British laundry operators visit New York annually to study American methods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 21, 1936 | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania's favorite daughter Princess Ileana, wife of a Habsburg archduke with a castle less than 25 miles from that in which "Boysy" is staying (see p. 15), this week invited Mrs. Simpson to visit her in Austria. The last Scotland Yard detectives assigned to Mrs. Simpson had just cleared out of Cannes. With bagfuls of threatening letters arriving by each post Mrs. Simpson urgently asked that her five French Government Secret Service guards be not withdrawn. They gallantly reassured her that they were staying, and, as the Lord-in-Waiting had left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Duchess of Windsor | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

Guild. Operagoers were amazed last year at the teamwork and smoothness of Manager Johnson's first season. Gossips were equally amazed at the support young matrons and businessmen were giving him. Hundreds, by asking attendants the way to the bar and washrooms, revealed that this was their first visit to the Opera House. For this new contingent, lively, white-haired Mrs. August Belmont was chiefly responsible. As Actress Eleanor Robson at the old Empire Theatre she used to hurry across the street from her performances and buy standing room at the Opera House. All her life she has kept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Met's Metamorphosis | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

...good of morals and a liberal policy Harvard has repealed its "Two Women" Parietal rule, and has declared that it considers any third party, "sex unspecified," capable of handling the chaperonage end of feminine visits to the Houses. "If there is to be only one woman in a party," says the rule, the student "shall agree that a third person be present during the visit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 12/16/1936 | See Source »

...took some time to shake the Harvard Administration loose from its stand for full-fledged chaperones, and reactions after repeal of that law forced another rule saying no girl should visit a College room without the accompaniment of at least one feminine sympathizer. It must have taken considerable argument to bring them around to believing a "third-party" roommate would be able to handle the policing job satisfactorily...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 12/16/1936 | See Source »

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