Word: visitor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nora Waln was the first foreigner ever to be admitted to the house; they welcomed her, treated her like one of themselves-all except one woman who had seen her mother raped by foreign soldiers. The Lins begged their visitor to excuse this relative's prejudice. Admitted to their hospitality, Nora Waln also had to obey their rules. After being presented to Kuei-tzu (Lady of First Authority in the House of Exile) she was forbidden to appear again until "sufficiently civilized" to hear and speak for herself; all members of the family were forbidden to speak...
...announced. During the manufacture of Zoo in Budapest, the Fox studio in Hollywood contained the third largest menagerie in the U. S. The animal most amenable to direction was the gibbon (Amos), who is accustomed to camera work. Most intractable was a supercilious warthog. In one scene a woman visitor complains about the smell of the animals. The wart-hog gives her a derisive sniff. Director Lee produced the proper expression by offering the wart-hog a carrot, substituting a piece of raw beef to make him disgusted...
...highly successful wizard, particularly adept at telling suspicious wives where their husbands spend the hours after work. Chandra's precarious prosperity ends when one of the husbands pays him an indignant call. Presently Chandra is being led off for two years in the penitentiary, for killing his visitor in self-defense...
...about the famous Harvard University section of Cambridge as many of its professors and instructors, possibly far better known to the public than many of them, was the little brown cocker spaniel "Phantom," the dog of President and Mrs. Lowell. This little dog for years was a visitor to our Hospital when any physical troubles seemed to threaten his good health. Quite unlike many of the visitors to our Hospital, President and Mrs. Lowell often would sit and wait their turn while certain other people were very impatient to have most immediate attention. Little Phantom has at last succumbed...
Died. Bertha Martin, onetime Washington apartment house telephone operator, later society editor of Edward Beale McLean's Washington Post, frequent visitor to "the little green house on K Street" and intimate of "The Ohio Gang"; by her own hand (gas); in Washington...