Word: visitor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Warm Springs visitor was Ambassador to France Bill Bullitt, with whom the President discussed, among other means of improving the personnel of the foreign service, the feasibility of a "West Point" for diplomats...
...Hialeah Park, before the race, War Admiral (whose arrival in Miami two months ago caused more excitement than that of any previous visitor except the President of the U. S.), was signed up for the movies. The 20,000 spectators, most of whom had come primarily to see War Admiral in his first big race as a four-year-old, were not disappointed. Oldsters for a moment thought they were watching Big Red, as War Admiral, imitating his famed sire, delayed the race by his shameful behavior at the starting gate, then flashed to the front in the first furlong...
Prisoners in Alcatraz are aflowed one visitor each month. On the last day of February and the first day of March, Prisoner Al Capone was visited by his wife Mae. His brother Ralph stood around outside. Back on the mainland they were cornered by reporters. No, Al was not insane, they said. He was just broken in spirit. "Well, what do we do to get rid of you?" said Ralph. The reporters said they should pose for a picture. "Half my face,'' said Mae, wearily. Photographers then snapped the first picture (see cut) of Mae Capone since...
...probably his power and truculence were all the more impressive because he did look a good deal like a distant relative. No one was allowed to go close to his cage, because Gargantua can reach about five feet through the bars and get a toe hold on a visitor whom he dislikes." Gargantua may not be the world's biggest captive gorilla-since the death of Berlin Zoo's monster, many zoos have claimed that honor for their gorillas-but he is one of the most vindictive...
...consisting of a broken-down closed car in which a skeleton sat, warm and dry, at the driver's wheel while in the back seat a semi-nude manikin was planted among flourishing weeds, a heavy shower pouring down on her golden hair. Once past this cryptic collection, visitors entered a long corridor lined with completely nude manikins, masked with bird cages, sprouting electric light bulbs, spotted here and there with snails, pins, bats and magnets. Then each visitor was handed a free flashlight and ushered into the darkness of a big, square room...