Word: visitor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...predecessor's liberal application of the Jones Act (which promised eventual independence) had bred local corruption so crude it was almost laughable and, according to some, a state approaching governmental chaos. Characteristically, the General said nothing, but began, by long hours of toil, to change all that. A visitor noting in his library stacks of weighty tomes concerning the Islands asked when he intended to read them. "Oh, I already have," replied the General...
...even if they are not), then the level of the writing, like that of the editing, is noticeably high. This impression becomes stronger on reading the "Report of the Student Council of Education," which fills more than one-third of the issue. It would be most improper for a visitor to discuss this document; but he may, without vain compliment, be struck with the lucidity, orderliness, and independence of the style (which is also very sober in tone); and may admire, very honestly, the maturity of form attained in the committee of ten gentlemen wearing the suffix "26." Such...
Hilarious Irish students at the University of Belfast made much of a rotund, distinguished and almost equally hilarious visitor. They presented him with a "puddy hat," and he clapped it on his head. They called his attention to a clay pipe stuck in the brim, and he cried that he accepted it as a tribute to his chief, that inveterate pipe smoker, Premier Baldwin. They gave their puddy-hatted guest a shillalah. And while he brandished it, they drew him about the campus in an Irish "jaunting car."* Finally, in Ulster Hall, he received the honorary degree of Doctor...
...four wins. In the last game that the Meiji men took from Chicago, two of their batters poled home runs, Chicago poling none. In Tokyo, two English newspapers and one Japanese published extras after the games, wiring inning-by-inning reports all over the country. Waseda University, frequently a visitor to the U. S., scheduled three games in Chicago for next...
...this precious anonymous "Visitor" (whoever she is) wants to know why I protested because the Prince of Wales dressed up as a girl in The Bathroom Door? Well, well! And on top of that it is insinuated that my English friends are "in the pay of the Reds...