Word: visitor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Three visitors were received at the White House with true California hospitality. Two came from Palo Alto (country seat of the Hoovers) with an introduction from D. C. Kok, a fellow-townsman. Their names were respectively Southboro Sunny and Southboro Markham, children of International Champion Southboro Savanna, English setter. The third visitor came without a card. His ancestry and antecedents were a mystery, but he was a handsome Eskimo sled...
...Many a New York inhabitant and visitor knew this bank because of its unique and long-standing advertisement headlined: "A Bank Statement That Any Man or Woman Can Understand." This began to appear years ago when other banks were afraid to advertise except in an unintelligible manner...
...most notable visitor is undoubtedly Heathcote William Garrod, Professor of Poetry at Oxford since 1923 as he will hold the Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry, endowed by the late C. C. Stillman '98 four years ago. This chair was not filled last year owing to the fact that University authorities were slow in seeking a man to fill it. Professor Garrod is believed to be the equal of the two previous holders of the chair, Professors Gilbert Murray and Eric M. D. Maclagan...
...Zeppelin maneuvers fails to reveal the arrangement by which U. S. sailors, soldiers, marines, hangars, et cetera are used to assist a private commercial undertaking. Will TIME testify? FRANCIS J. D 'AMANDA Rochester, X. Y. The U. S. served the Graf Zeppelin out of courtesy to a distinguished visitor; also because the U. S. Navy is an interested student of zeppelining...
Chicago's smart visitor today knows Quigley's place, under the bare forearm of the Palmolive Building. He hears crack dance bands at the Drake, drinks his drink in the gaudy Balloon Room. But the historical panorama of Chicago reveals scenes far more polychromatic...