Word: visitor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although much local color and innumerable photographs from the inevitable introduction of any distinguished visitor to this country, there is about such a man as Clemenceau something which no mere description of "beetling eyebrows" can give. To a few it is granted to see and hear him and they may find it for themselves; the rest must be content with accounts of speeches and ineffectual summaries of the message which an old and fiery statesman has brought with him to this country...
...indeed Which outwardly ye show?" The glamour of romance, more alluring because not fully known, hangs over the whole organization. But when neighbors disappear, when courts of justice are invaded; or, on the other hand, when the village poor family is supplied with food and money by a disguised visitor, then the Klan must be thought of as something more than a secret brotherhood with mystic rites and nothing more serious...
...decorations consist of two oblong panels, arched at the top, and in plain view from either the top or the bottom of the main staircase. They are uniform, in shape and design, with the three windows that flank the stairway. The light, coming freely from both sides, gives the visitor ample illumination to study the figures with care from the balcony, which is on a level with the paintings. In Mr. Sargent's other Boston murals, the lighting and position are such that careful study is not convenient...
Russell worked smoothly during the entire nine innings and allowed only six singles. The third batter who faced him was the only visitor who walked, while five men struck out and no one reached second after the fifth inning...
...most distinguished visitor to the college this year has been Mr. Frank Vanderlip, who with his wife has been making a study of European conditions. Mr. Vanderlip spoke in chapel in the subject of internationalism in a discriminating and searching manner which immediately won the respect of the student body. Mrs. Vanderlip made a short plea for the education of women in then Near East...