Word: visitor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Charles Webster Hawthorne was 27 years old, had put in a few years as an art teacher, when he settled in Provincetown, Mass, in 1899. At that time Provincetown was a fishing village inhabited largely by Portuguese. A Chicago visitor said that Provincetown ladies decorated their hats with mackerel gills and swept their floors with halibut fins. But to Hawthorne, Provincetown's great natural resource was its summer light- brilliant and untempered, making houses, sand and wharves blaze against their backgrounds. In an old sail loft he established an art school. Before his death in 1930 it attracted...
...thick iron door equipped with a large bell-push and a speaking tube. The speaking tube runs through the grounds a good 50 yards to the servants' quarters. At one time the good Dr. Strauss had this speaking tube connected with a phonograph mechanism. When unwanted visitors rang the bell, a record would repeat monotonously, "Dr. Strauss is not at home. . . . Dr. Strauss is not at home." A second push of the bell would stop the record and open the door. But only Strauss's intimate friends knew enough to ring twice. Nowadays, when a visitor has been...
...Carnegie International show in Pittsburgh last autumn, visitors in the German room stopped before an arresting painting that Critic Edward Alden Jewell described as "beautiful, breathless, haunted and haunting." It was Along the Shore, by a 33-year-old Munich artist named Edgar Ende, and although it won no prize, many a visitor wondered about the work of the artist who created its sombre vision of gloomy sky and water, its statuelike group of horses...
...Narrows of New York Harbor last week and eased into quarantine, paced an authentic-looking Viking. He was Able Seaman Eugen Knutsen, burdened for a reception tableau with a shirt of mail and the weight of 938 years of Norse legend. At quarantine, Viking Knutsen received a visitor. She was Rosebud Yellow Robe, sprightly, college-bred great grandniece of Sitting Bull. Last week Rosebud mislaid her peace pipe but gave sheepish Leif a beaded tobacco pouch and the welcoming ceremony was over...
...visitor sees a fine front. There is no open evidence of constraint, repression, or fear. Whatever it may be worth, money flows freely. The people are well dressed, well fed, fairly well housed. At parades, reviews, unveilings, cornerstone Mayings, a, busy, eager nation is always on its toes to cheer Mussolini, the King, and the flag, even though every mail box is sealed tight with steel baffles when the two heads of the Empire visit their loyal Milano. Bombs and infernal machines have exploded in these boxes. For ten days preceding Hitler's arrival no parcels will be delivered...