Word: visitor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President William T. Cosgrave of the Irish Free State was another White House visitor-of-the-week (see p. 12). His presence was no less formal in nature than the visit last month of Canada's chief exec- utive, Governor General Willingdon, who was dined at the White House. But some expert on etiquette decided that a White House luncheon for President Cosgrave would do just as well, and luncheon it was. The Cabinet, some outstanding Senators and Representatives, the military chiefs of staff and many a minor official with...
...menacing visitor first devoted himself to the South Entry and reaped a royal harvest in every room which he cound enter, working from the top floor down. Some men heard him, but thought it was their roommate, just getting in: others heard him but were afraid to get out of bed. Not so with one daring student on the first floor. Hearing strange noises in the study he picked up a bedroom slipper and clad in his pink pajamas ventured from the sanctity of his Doudoir. He came fact to face with a slim, dark, foreign man with a strong...
Harvard's canvas, never really idle, any more than is the canvas of any privately owned educational institution, today is spread for the cause of better indoor athletic facilities. That this cause is among the worthiest no visitor to Hemenway will deny. And even an athletic agnostic will be tempted to dig into his pockets if he has ever attempted to take a swim in the so called Big Tree...
...Mayor Thompson has entertained a visiting potentate and made for good feeling between Chicago and one, at least, of the British Isles. In Chicago no bricks were thrown at President Cosgrave, for "Big Bill" had instructed his people that such procedure is not good form in receiving an honored visitor. Chicago has outstripped Boston in its cordiality to a British sympathizer; for Cosgrave is so looked upon by the Irish Republicans. His omission of a visit to Boston is generally ascribed to a fear of hostility from that direction in Boston. The situation is anomalous. But then they say that...
...building up, in the certain belief that a genuine understanding can be built up between us. ... The palm may pass from us in the future. . . . But our task is in the present. Let us meet it together." After her lecture, Preacher Royden, like every other famed British visitor, was asked what she thought of prohibition. Said she: "It is a marvelous adventure. ... I wish it success...