Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sooner or later all European authors of note visit America, then return home and wax literary about what they have seen. Mr. Lennox Robinson is no exception and the dramatic fruits of his trip to these shores is being presented this week by the Harvard Dramatic Club in Brattle Hall in a play called "Ever the Twain...
...Staten Island. I feel sure that my memory is not at fault because I have always looked upon Edith Carow Roosevelt as the most gracious and distinguished woman who has presided over the White House in Washington during my 72 years. During the winter of Prince Henry's visit to the U. S. I lived at the Metropolitan Club and I think I missed no important phase of the rather interesting episode when Kaiser's brother looked America over. I had a close-up view from a small adjoining dining room of the great horseshoe table of guests...
...Team was in Oklahoma City last week, on the last leg of their trip which is to end in Philadelphia Dec. 15. As they have in other cities, they began their first day by breakfasting with the Oklahoma churchmen who had made arrangements for their visit. Then followed a crowded mass meeting at First Presbyterian Church. Later the Team deployed to speak in separate churches. Finally another mass meeting in Oklahoma City College auditorium where students presented a missionary play, Ba Thane...
...telegram quickly provided "Poor Devil's" identity. Again he was authentically Harry Stockton Boon, auditor for the Department of Agriculture in whose service he has spent 16 years. He left Washington seven weeks ago. Last week he was on his way to San Diego to visit his brother. Captain Ben Boon of the U. S. Army...
...Visit With The Master" by Theodore Pratt is the most satisfactory short story in the anthology because the author has the faculty of building up a unique situation with a masterly touch of irony. George Pendleton is an idealistic young writer who emulates the style of the great master of literature, Alfred Pillsbury. He has received a most cordial invitation to visit Mr. Phillsbury, and as he approaches the villa of the master, he dreams of the pleasant conversations he will have with the master...