Word: visitor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coach Knox brought a distinguished visitor to watch the practice on Soldiers Field yesterday morning, the Mahrajah Sir Albian Banerji formerly premier of Mysore...
...scale by declaring them to be a race of rather nasty people, seeking primarily to satisfy their lowest impulses. A foreign writer glances across the ocean and through the haze of three thousand miles deduces that they are prigs, smug claimants of virtue where no virtue exists. A recent visitor to Boston pronounces them a lazy people, desiring luxury and case. And their most consistent critic declares that they are guilty of all the foregoing charges and a great many more; as many, to be precise, as he finds necessary to keep the pages of his cultural magazine filled...
...William, last winter an observant visitor to the U.S., is wrong. The U.S. doctor does not write freely to the newspapers. And reputable newspapers often complain that it is not easy to get information from U.S. doctors...
...began Mr. Calisch, patient once more, "in the first place-" They had been arguing about a newly-published book on Sigmund Freud. Mr. Calisch had genially called psychoanalysis "rot." Neurotic young Emanuel was furious; he took Freud as glorious gospel. After the quarrel, Mr. Calisch, annoyed by his voluble visitor, told the landlady not to admit him to his study any more...
...across the Atlantic. Brilliant searchlights would radiate from them, and to them would swoop ocean-crossing aircraft, heavy-laden with freight and passengers. In the seadromes' vitals, which would extend so far down into the deep ocean that no wave-motion would be noticed by the most squeamish visitor, would be fuel and food supplies, machine shops and the foundations of hotels where ocean travelers could rest en route between Atlantic City, N. J., and Plymouth, England. Engineer Armstrong believes that where distance is the object of aviation, speed should be sacrificed for the sake of safety and comfort...