Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Elizabeth, ruler of 50 million British subjects, stopped off on her voyage to Australia to pay a return visit to Salote. As the visiting Queen stepped ashore at the Tongan capital of Nukualofa, it began to rain once more. Both Queens smiled broadly as Salote this time opened a large green umbrella and raised it over both their heads...
...kingdom make physical labor largely unnecessary. On reaching manhood, every young Tongan gets a grant of eight acres of land from the government. On that land he can spend the rest of his life raising coconuts and bananas with a minimum of effort. As the British Queen's visit drew near last week, the Tongans felt far more inclined to sing and dance than to work, but there was much to be done...
...span, saw to it that young George was always dressed in starched tidiness. She even taught him to whistle while he was still in his baby carriage. In middle age, Aunt Fanny married and moved to California, but in 1920, when she was over 70, she came on a visit to her nephew's home in Woodstock, N.Y. There she returned to her old ways of scrubbing and washing everything spotlessly clean, and it was at this time that Bellows, by then a successful artist, painted his reverent portrait...
...even his wife knew what he did. As a matter of fact, it sometimes seemed as if Eugene Carroll hardly knew himself. For no apparent reason at all, he would suddenly decide to visit Brown University. Later, he would be off to the University of Maine, or would head for Harvard. But once on campus, Carroll knew exactly what to do. He had learned all about the habits of students-and the knowledge, says he, "certainly paid...
...wept giant tears at Daniels and Fisher Stores Co., and the May Department Stores Co. built Santa's toy factory for the city's youngsters. At Detroit's J. L. Hudson Co., a delightful doll named Christmas Carol clutched a candy-striped Teddy bear on her visit to the North Pole. In other cities, there were kitchen angels busily preparing yuletide feasts, velvet and lace dolls in 1890 snowscapes, rosy-cheeked children scribbling letters to Santa, handsome windows showing Dickens' Christmas Carol, with lifelike figures of Tiny Tim, Bob Cratchit and Old Scrooge...