Word: visitor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more than 1,000 years, bearded, black-robed Greek Orthodox monks have lived in theocratic communities on that marble crag, Mount Athos, which rises 6,000 ft. out of the Aegean Sea. Accessible to male visitors, the monks are used to being asked: "What is the purpose of your life?" They invariably reply: "What is the purpose of your life outside?" Few years ago Mount Athos had a visitor who did more than ask about purposes. A Dartmouth sociologist named Michael Choukas, he viewed the "holy mountain" as a medieval hangover, a laboratory for pure sociological research. He lived among...
...doormats all wipe with a rearward motion, which gradually flattens the bristles and decreases the efficacy of the mat. Some callers are too lazy to wipe their feet at all. Both problems are taken care of by his revolving doormat which gives the feet a circular scouring while the visitor stands still...
...country at all roared "Evviva Mussolini! Evviva la Francia! Evviva Laval!" With 5,000 trim Italian police and militia blocking off the station, the Frenchman's hotel and an intervening strip of Rome, II Duce gave a pointed exhibition of how to guarantee the safety of a foreign visitor...
...jailer and the jailer's wife he made a strongly mysterious impression; his effect on the jailer's daughter was even stronger. When his time was up she insisted on going with him, though he made it clear to her that he was only a visitor on earth, would be off to some other place on the first day of autumn. More, he was fleeing from a woman of his own kind, because she had tried to persuade him to embrace mortality. Meanwhile Margaret, the other immortal visitant, having lost her mate, took shelter with a college...
...visitor to this, the world's richest university, can hardly escape a visit to the library, famed as the largest on the planet belonging to an educational institution. He necessarily expects great splendor, nor is he disappointed. A three-story Corinthian facade is a satisfactory glory for introduction. Within, a double marble stairway and murals by Sargent are also sufficiently impressive. Shakespearean folios and holographs of Keats, along with original Spectator papers, provide an atmosphere of gentility. Tingling with anticipation, the sightseer passes from these treasures into the dingy depths of the reading-room...