Word: visitor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suppose that the monopoly was worth perhaps a, quarter of a million. President Samuel Scovil of the company that published the Times signed a wistful valedictory to the effect that just a little more advertising would have made successful the five-year effort to establish a clean, unsensational "visitor in the home...
...purely nonsensical, but with longer inspection of these drawings, it will be found that his nonsense becomes mingled more and more with passionate reality until it fixes itself in admirable concentration and observation. The other artists represented are Holbein, Fragonard, Delacroix, Watteau, Canaletto, and Duerer. For the visitor, we suggest the mental attitude inspired by the great Delacroix horse, perhaps the most conspicuous drawing in the room
...most characteristic things about the average exhibition of water-colors is the feeling of mild disappointment or luke warm approbation which it engenders in the visitor. And he goes away with the thought that the pictures are rather nice--and promptly forgets them...
Record Low. For the first time in the 81-year long history of the London, Midland & Scottish Railway its directors declared a dividend of only 1½% last week. Cause: disastrous industrial depression resulting from the British coal strike (TIME, May 10 to Nov. 29). Midnight Visitor. At a maternity hospital in London's slummy East End the lights were snapped on suddenly one midnight last week, and 48 recent mothers blinked sleepy, startled eyes. Then they huddled bed clothes around themselves, sat up and simpered at Edward of Wales. He, restless, hurried on to visit half a dozen...
...that the S. F. F. assumed the responsibility of raising *5,000 this year to aid French students. These are only samples of the needs that the S. F. F. is trying to meet and can be verified quite easily by any who care to do so. As a visitor, it seems to me that this country affords the greatest opportunity in the world today for the cultivation of international friendships. The method of the S. F. F. in its attempts to accomplish the same is to assist foreign students in need and to put them in touch with...