Word: visitor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...casual visitor from Wichita or Waltham looks with ill concealed dismay upon the luxurious peace of the Farnsworth Room. To think that mere students should enjoy such cushioned learning fills his heart with envy at the mightiness of things. Jaundiced he turns from the rows of glittering vellum and retreats to the shadows of the marble colonnade...
Thank You. John Golden's home town idyl of a minister and his flapper visitor from Paris is hereby done over for the Cinema. With Alec Francis as the minister, Jacqueline Logan as the girl, and George O'Brien as the man she marries, it makes good routine amusement. Never a great drama for the intellectuals, it has been further boiled down for movie fans...
This English-speaking visitor said that the military spirit in Germany was a thing of the past. And then he burst out. "Why, if we had had any idea of the wealth and organizing ability of the United States, we would never have had a war with...
...visitor was a little late, so the Chancellor had had time to glance at his mail before the door of the reception room opened and an official person announced: M. Joseph Caillaux and M. de Fleurian. In walked a strange creature, a bald-headed man with a trimmed mustache, the ends of which it seemed he ought to twirl. He was smiling and his luminous eyes gave no hint of the fact that he was the husband of a woman who had been tried for murder and he himself had been tried for treason and both had survived their tribulations...
...another $40-a-week family is herein chronicled. It is the same type of family that dwelt in the household of The Show-Off, possibly a notch or two more distinguished than the clattering denizens of The Fall Guy. These humans react in primitives. The chief feeling of a visitor within their precincts is laughter at their meddling monotonies tempered with sorrow for their errors...