Word: visitor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...realm of the finite and taking possession of luckless mortals, causing them to do all sorts of uncanny things. An eight-year old boy who is suspected of harboring such a demon was actually able to cause tables to move without any material means of propulsion when his supernatural visitor so desired. Whereupon several fearless scientists isolated the boy in a glass cage to learn the secrets of this dread phantom. The poltergeist was evidently deeply impressed with such audacity and has since shown no signs of his presence...
...like a curved scimitar in a tasselled scabbard, his mouth curled with an ironic courtesy. He regarded the spectators with complete composure, his lean face masking carefully but not completely its sneer. Intimidated by his arrogance, the women who sat nearest the ring applauded its proud and villainous visitor...
Completing a series of three games away from home, the University of Maine basketball quintet will be a visitor at the Hemenway Gymnasium tonight at 8 o'clock. Coming here with an inexperienced team and a poor record, the visitors are rated as the underdogs in tonight's contest. Their last two games have been lost to Rhode Island State and Worcester Technology, but they have displayed steady improvement and will have their full strength with which to confront the Crimson tonight...
Santo Domingo, found in 1496 by Christopher Columbus who "with fragile caravels of discovery opened new routes on unknown seas," shook hands with Col. Lindbergh on his birthday. With the above quotation President Horacio Vasquez likened the visitor to a new Columbus. Among the exhibits prepared for his reception were effigies of the Statue of Liberty and the Eiffel Tower two stories high with a miniature airplane swung between them. U. S. Minister Evan E. Young entertained the visitor with a chocolate cake sprouting 26 candles...
...Markels will make the trip to Cambridge and personally direct the music. Although he has not supplied the music for Junior Dances in some time, in 1914 he was a frequent visitor to Cambridge, and in that and the years immediately preceding played for the affair...