Word: visitor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year on trains. He never took a sleeping car, and intimates insisted that he never slept at all. He would lock himself in a compartment every night, dictate furiously to his four secretaries. He always stopped at third-rate hotels but insisted on having six rooms, so that one visitor might never know who his other visitors were. German newshawks, if they wanted an interview with Dr. Berliner, had to catch him en route to the railroad station. Somewhere in his numerous locked brief cases Austria's insurance Napoleon kept a toothbrush and a stiff collar...
...fortune, for a college for "poor male white orphan children," prescribed that "no ecclesiastic, missionary, or minister of any sect whatsoever, shall ever hold or exercise any station or duty whatever in the said College; nor shall any such person ever be admitted for any purpose, or as a visitor." When Stephen Girard's French kin tried to break the will, their advocate, Daniel Webster, carried the plea to the U. S. Supreme Court, where he eloquently protested against "a cruel experiment upon these orphans to shut them up and make them the victims of a philosophical speculation...
...whole show away, have discovered there is more than one way to kill a cat. Gertrude Stein did it by pretending it was Alice B. Toklas speaking. Norman Douglas did it by thumbing through a lifetime's collection of calling cards, telling what he could remember about each visitor. Last week Gladys Bronwyn Stern beat an even more ingenious path about the bush. Readers learned little from Monogram about the facts of Author Stern's life but heard plenty about her fancies and opinions. For her admirers, the plenty was a surfeit...
...duty entered. She walked to the bed, lifted the box in her arms, and tiptoed to the door again, closing it behind her. There were whispered conjectures among those who had awakened as to the significance of the strange event. The door, however, was soon opened again. The visitor had returned, again the possessor of his mysterious box. Strange! No one had heard the nurse scream. He paused but he bedside of a man near the door, and inquired in an audible whisper: "Is this the third floor?" Receiving an affirmative, he demanded assurance. "You're sure this...
...just loves hamburgers," the visitor whispered before tiptoeing awkardly from the room...