Word: visitor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Once while Horace sat at work amid a wallow of discarded newspapers there entered a caller. But Horace did not turn around. "Ahem, I am Commodore Vanderbilt," the visitor announced, after a moment...
...interrupted them again. "I'm sorry,'" I said, "'but I shall be unable to do so... Well, I don't like to do that either, these days.' And," said Mr. Harvard, rising at the advent of a new visitor, "there...
Comment on the Presidential campaign of 1928 has begun early, chiefly because of the possibility of a third term for President Coolidge. Last summer, every visitor at White Pine Camp was given a significance by the correspondents; in the autumn, much Coolidge and anti-Coolidge talk reverberated in state and congressional elections. Last week, Frank R. Kent, whose able pen pleases the Democratic readers of the Baltimore Sun, informed the sagaciously militant readers of the Nation that "the real business of this session of Congress is Presidential politics...
...warden had the box on his desk. He showed it with an ironic comment to his visitor. Once the box had contained Prince Albert tobacco; now its contents were more interesting. A little rubber sack. A hypodermic needle. A broken spoon. An envelope of morphin. . . . Drug peddlers, delivering narcotics to prisoners on the island, do not always drop their orders from the bridge. An ordinary postoffice envelope, embossed with the head of George Washington, has a hollow behind the raised stamp...
...impossibility of seeing (during the holidays) more than a handful of the shows current in New York reduces the visitor to Broadway to careful scrutiny of reviewers comments...