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Word: visitor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vagabond is uneasy. He would like to throw back the covers and cool off, but he doesn't quite dare with such an inquisitive visitor making the rounds of his belongings. The winged lancer squares off on the desk calendar and snorts contemptuously at a picture of the Vagabond's best girl. Bored, he revs up his motor and decides to leaves. He mistakes the mirror for a window and is quite some shaken up by the minor crackup which ensues. Then, having been aroused, he changes instantly from a disturbance into a menace. He runs out his stinger...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 6/1/1938 | See Source »

...Glyndebourne opened its fifth season of opera (eight weeks), fashionable Londoners piled into trains and automobiles for their annual pilgrimage. The 600 seats in Glyndebourne's diminutive opera house cost between $7.50 and $10 apiece, and dinner at Glyndebourne served between the acts adds another $2 to the visitor's bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Country House Opera | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

...Cameron Forbes '92 will speak to the Freshmen class on "Spain Under General France" in the Upper Common Room of the Union at 7:30 O'clock tonight. Mr. Forbes, who has been United States Ambassador to Japan, and Governor-General of the Philippines, was a recent visitor in Spain as the guest of General Franco...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Forbes Speaks | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

...first time since he moved into the White House, Franklin Roosevelt last week was not its centre of attention. That distinction went to a spindling elderly gentleman who came there to have lunch (see col. 3). Before and after entertaining his extraordinary visitor, the President prepared for his holiday by getting through a heavy week's work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Shakedown Cruise | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

With much more savoir-faire than many a movie star, a little five-year-old stepped off a Pullman car at Belmont Park, N. Y. one day last week and patiently posed for dozens of cameramen who had come to greet him. The young visitor had just traveled 3,000 miles from San Francisco to keep an engagement with his uncle. The visitor's name was Seabiscuit, No. 1 money-winner of 1937, and he had come to run a $100,000 race, winner-take-all, with equally famed, four-year-old War Admiral, on Memorial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Seasoned Biscuit | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

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