Word: visitor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been "gossip" and un-British actually to name the Nawab, but last week Reynolds' Illustrated News of London printed: "Lord Linlithgow, the Viceroy of India, was a bit bewildered when he was entertained at tea recently by a wealthy Nawab. To show in what honor he held his visitor, the Nawab had a fire made of rupee notes to boil the water...
When a conniving ward leader suggests that Cave abuse his official power, he tosses his visitor's hat out the window and his visitor out the door. Johnny's love life is complicated by the fact that his fiancee (Mae Clarke) is the loyal secretary to the town's worst scalawag (Henry Kolker...
...Cola Corp., held a revolver on him, forced him to call their mutual friend Thomas K. Glenn, president of Georgia Trust Co., and order him to bring $30,000 in cash to the office immediately. While he waited for the money, Moyers held Woodruff, his secretary and an office visitor at bay. When Banker Glenn arrived, Moyers pocketed the money. Banker Glenn was then forced to accompany Moyers to the street where he disappeared into a crowd of some 20,000 that had gathered in the neighborhood to watch a fire. Banker Glenn rushed back into the office...
...queried ten policemen and two hotel clerks without finding one who knew where Ward's was. Ward officials like to tell the story of an Australian scientist who registered at a Rochester hotel, asked how to proceed to Ward's. The clerk confessed ignorance. "Young man," the visitor bellowed indignantly, "I've come all the way from Australia and there are just two things in America I wanted to see. One was the Grand Canyon, and one was Ward...
...former Harvard student, Bernard O. Koopmann '22, Ph.D. '26, now assistant professor of Mathematics at Columbia, will return for the school year as Lecturer on Mathematics. In Psychology, Harvard will have another distinguished visitor in the person of Dr. Heinz Werner, of the University of Hamburg, last year a Lecturer at the University of Michigan. Dr. Werner's special field of research has been in various aspects of the psychology of the senses and of speech. His courses this year will cover the "Psychology of Personality," "Developmental Psychology," and "Social Psychology...