Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Billy Sunday was back in Manhattan for a two-week battle for the Lord, his first extended visit since...
...making money instead of to making human values." An old timer in the automobile trade once told me that in New York, at some of the first auto shows, there was not such a firm belief in the goodness of human nature among those whom Ford took occasion to visit on his interfering expeditions. He was not such a recognized philosopher in those days, of course, and was generally known as "nosy-posy Henry." There was little at that time, they tell me, to indicate the genius which was to place Henry where he now roosts, flapping triumphantly...
...Impress the dog with the propriety of your visit...
When asked about the significance of plays satirizing the government, Mr. Moore said, "I never realized how funny 'Of Thee I Sing' was until I saw the real Congress in action. Then I really appreciated Mr. Kaufmann's satire. I thought we were over-doing it, but after my visit to Washington I saw that we were only scratching the surface...
...Scandinavian atmosphere. When she decided that she had had enough of being ruler, she amazed Europe by abdicating, going to Rome to live. There, although she had turned Roman Catholic she was a constant source of embarrassment to the authorities by her loud, eccentric and unladylike behavior. On a visit to the King of France and in the presence of the entire court "she often rested her feet on a chair as high as the one on which she was sitting." laughed at jokes in the theatre which should have made her blush, swore freely whenever she felt like...