Word: visitor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York Philharmonic played the Second, broadcast part of it to Finland. Sibelius, at 70, lives in a rambling country house in Jarvenpaa, some 30 miles from Helsinki. There he begins each day by dousing his head in a bucket of icy water. There he entertains many a visitor, fills them with good wine, converses intelligently on a wide range of subjects, refuses admittance to his upstairs study where he makes his music...
Added the Daily Telegraph: "The exhibits have been gathered from 35 centuries of artistry, sweeping the visitor on a stream of beauty that is never slackening...
...last day of his visit, however, he spent with a totter in Dunster House. Upon entering the dining hall the visitor again burst into effusions of delight. He remarked on the extreme youth of most of the young men eating in Dunster, and thought it singular indeed that the members of the faculty were so young. when his fried explained that Dunster was just the same as Lowell he was shocked...
...three days, until the arrival of his first official visitor, care did not catch up with him. Representative James P. Buchanan, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, and Director of the Budget Daniel Bell were to visit him to discuss the budget. For more than a fortnight the President had been combing the budget requests of his Cabinet officers, department by department. Word passed along that he wanted, if possible, at least $500,000,000 in cuts as a New Year's present for the country. Newshawks who reported that intention had been called in and told that they...
...visitor entered the Geographical Institute last week. Glancing to the left he read the inscription...