Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Queen Mary requested members of the Court to go out of mourning for her late husband, paid a visit to London's famed Adelphi Terrace, home of many a great British writer, soon to be razed for an office-building development. Escorted by the real-estate agent, she poked among the underground arches where Charles Dickens in Oliver Twist imagined a thieves' kitchen...
...vaudeville theatre when Researcher Lomax again made news with another singing convict. This one was James ("Ironhead'') Baker, a Negro who had been sentenced to life imprisonment in Texas. At John Lomax' request Governor James V. Allred granted Baker a furlough to tour as a minstrel, visit penitentiaries in Mississippi, Florida, South Carolina, Virginia, sing his songs so that other convicts will understand what Lomax wants for his folk-song files in the Library of Congress...
...farthest north" in the chain-store business. His half dozen stores are spotted along 1,000 miles of the Arctic Ocean on Alaska's Kotzebue Sound in Eskimo villages with such sub-zero names as Deering, Keewalik, Shishmaref, Kobuk. Gross libel was the press report that his Seattle visit was the first time he had been "outside" in 27 years. Rated one of the Arctic's shrewdest judges of raw furs and hard liquor, Boris Magids journeys to Seattle each year to replenish his chain's stocks...
...Minister to the Court of Naples, and in that garish society Emma sparkled. Though she was years younger than her elderly lover, she transferred her fidelity to him without much trouble. In Naples they could live openly together without causing scandal. When they went home to London on a visit, Sir William surprised everybody by marrying her. Though she was still not received by English society, Lady Hamilton made quite a stir among the Neapolitans, and became great gossips with Bourbon Queen Maria Carolina, Marie Antoinette's sister. Says Biographer Bowen: "The two women gossiped, lamented, condoled together, with...
Thence, I to thank Miss Onderdonk for letting me visit but did not tell her my thoughts nor did I give her the orange I brought for it seems she be so matter of fact and so clear-headed I was scaird. Yet, 'twas a pity for I thought a woman philosopher would be also a poet; and then again the orange was very good...