Word: visitor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which shows a U. S. soldier standing on a prostrate German) in the Widener Library they said: "Critics have shown them to be indefensible on grounds esthetic: War posters raised to the rank of mural decoration. But it is not their ugliness which would trouble the sensitive visitor. . . . [They] are out of place as the symbols of a bygone hatred. . . . They are of the stuff that is offensive to humanity and dangerous to peace . . . should be removed from the stronghold of academic freedom. They may well find a resting place, if resting place it is necessary that they have...
Last week the London Evening Stand ard commented on the French reduction of visa fees : "France has so many advantages over Britain for the attraction of Americans that we can ill afford to put any obstacles in the way of the potential visitor. There is a tendency on this side of the Channel to imagine that all American travelers are so rich that a few extra dollars in the way of fees will not weigh one way or another. That is quite wrong...
Evergreens are posted here and there to stimulate the quiet and charm of a New Hampshire hillside; and on the morning after, the casual visitor is greeted by a scene not unlike that of the familiar New England cut-over slashing. Some meagre punster who professes to se humor in all things, might call t a hang-over slashing, but not many will give him the consideration of a fleeting attention...
...state that it would be returned to the British Museum. Britishers were happy, yet marvelled at the absence of U. S. moneybags. Some surmised that U. S. financiers are not interested in damaged goods. In 1845 the Portland vase was shattered by one William Lloyd, a lunatic museum visitor, who was fined $15 for his impetuosity. It was skillfully repaired, but all connoisseurs know the story...
...Ware '30 and Short of Bowdoin provided the only fireworks of the afternoon, the visitor taking the second set, 7-9, but Ware came back to take the third set easily...