Word: visitor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...game of "Consequences." Authoress Stella Benson met Count Nicolas de Toulouse Lautrec de Savine in the charity ward of a Hongkong hospital. He was an inmate, she a visitor. Aged (77). penniless, shaky but brazen, the old scamp regaled her with such engagingly improbable tales, carried himself with such an unabashed air of grandeur that she was fascinated. A White Russian refugee, by his own account descended from an ancient French family, Count Nicolas spoke and wrote English of a sort; Authoress Benson decided to edit his rodomontadinous reminiscences. Pull Devil, Pull Raker is an antiphonal collaboration: the Count supplies...
Showman. The real showman of the Morgan investigation, however, was not a circus pressagent. nor a Senator but the kinky-haired, olive-skinned, jut-jawed lawyer from Manhattan named Ferdinand ("Pick") Pecora. Because Senator Fletcher, who at 74 looks like a wealthy Yankee visitor to his own Florida, is not another "Tom"' Walsh with the mental capacity to prosecute his own investigations, Lawyer Pecora was hired last January as the committee's counsel at $255 per month. He had spent weeks ransacking the records of the House of Morgan for material for this trial of a lifetime...
Industry too has joined in the Fair's activitism. It knows the visitor can see its products in the stores of his home town; here it shows him how they are made. In General Motors' $1,000,000 assembly plant a Fairgoer may order his Chevrolet in the morning, see it put together during the day, drive off in it at evening. He may watch Firestone turn crude rubber and chemicals into finished automobile tires, one every ten minutes. Phoenix Hosiery will show women how silk stockings are woven. Quaker Oats Co. will steam, roll, pack 100 cases...
Near the Fair's southern tip lies the Travel & Transport Building. From a grandstand across the street the visitor may see the oxcarts, covered wagons, automobiles, ships, trains, airplanes of a century's travel-all functioning, with operators in period costumes. All vehicles except the ships, among them Fulton's steamboat and the Baltimore Clipper, are originals. Baltimore & Ohio R. R.'s ancient Tom Thumb locomotive, a boiler on wheels, leads the way for the Royal Scot. Straight-eight automobiles purr behind the horseless carriages...
...Midway, officially named.for the amusement centre of the 1893 Fair, the visitor will find under new names most of the devices which amused the visitors of 40 years ago. Here are the Lindy Loop, the Hey Dey, Bozo, a roller coaster, Midget Village, captive balloon, shooting galleries, an Oriental village with dancing girls...