Word: visitor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Realmleader Hitler with a 90-minute tirade against post-war esthetics (TIME, July 26), the new, massive House of German Art in Munich drew daily throngs of youths and maidens looking for Strength Through Joy in a collection of conventional paintings by young Nazi discoveries. But for every visitor who paid 50 pfennigs to see what the Führer liked in the way of art, three visitors went down the street a little to see for nothing what the Führer despises. This part of the lesson was provided by the Nazi Ministry of Education, which opened...
This point was made more sharply by Secretary Samuel McCrea Cavert of the Federal Council of Churches, who complained that a visitor to the U. S. "would not find Negro and white Christians worshipping together before God, who is the Father of both. He would not find the employer and his factory workers meeting in the same place of worship. . . . The hungry, the insecure and the dispossessed he would seldom find in any church...
...Madrid last week United Pressman Henry Gorrell had fun with a typical visitor to Spain's war-torn metropolis, steered him into a cafe. "He was enjoying his beer," cabled Mr. Gorrell. "when the 'something' he wanted to see took place. There was a high-pitched whistle, followed almost instantly by an earshattering roar. Glass showered over the cafe tables as people dropped to their hands and knees. When the cannonading was over I took the visitor out into the street again...
...shell had made a direct hit at the entrance of the cafe. There were pieces of flesh on the walls. The visitor and I looked down at the bodies of three girls and a man from whom I had bought a morning paper a few minutes before. The visitor did not return to the cafe. Leaving his beer unfinished, he ran to his hotel, checked out and left the city the next morning...
Chico Marx runs an ice cream wagon at a racetrack. When he spies Groucho placing a bet on Sun-Up, he intercedes, sells the visitor a tip. When Groucho fails to understand the tip. Chico produces a code book from the ice cream wagon, sells Groucho the code book. When Groucho fails to understand the code book, Chico sells him a master code book. By the time the transaction ends, Groucho has a whole library of code books. Chico has Groucho's money, which he bets...