Word: visitor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Saracen's beak." Extravagant, generous?his tips were fantastic?he dressed like the dandy he was: creamy pink shirtfront, a rose or orchid in his lapel, light-colored gloves with black points. Even in summer, for fear of catching cold, he wore a heavy pelisse. An impressed English visitor to Paris said that Proust was "really the only man I ever saw dining in a fur coat." Some of the lions Proust tamed: Prince de Polignac, Count Robert de Montesquiou (chief prototype of Proust's "Baron de Charlus"), Baronne Alphonse de Rothschild, Edmond de Goncourt, Massenet, Saint-Saens, Anatole France...
...Spanish Governor of the Louisiana territory, but they never married. For reasons unknown she withdrew to "Glenburney," the trim white family home a mile out from Natchez on the Kingston Road. A woman of means, she affected old-fashioned dress, lived in decent comfort, if not style. A frequent visitor at "Glenburney" was Duncan Minor, but to the rest of the world its doors were closed. Miss Merrill's body was found early one morning last week in a thicket a hundred yards from her home. The night before there had been screams, shots. A trail of blood...
...American eagle. Practically all of the beasts & birds were acquired from Benson Animal Farms at Nashua, N. H. Neighbor W. B. McClellan, who resides but 100 ft. from the menagerie, heads the protesting property-owners. He caught one of the mon keys in his backyard recently. A woman visitor to the neighborhood found a chimpanzee occupying her parked automobile. Neighbors said the cockatoos were the noisiest. They could not discern which animals smelled worst...
Shredded Wheat For 35 years after a dyspeptic lawyer named Henry D. Perky saw another dyspeptic eating cooked whole wheat and helped himself to the idea, the course of Shredded Wheat Co. was profitable and untroubled. Many a visitor to Niagara Falls was shown through the model bakery by Shredded Wheat's Miss Blumreich and went home to add more dollars to the profits of Lawyer Perky's successors. In 1928 National Biscuit Co. bought Shredded Wheat, threw its huge organization into an effort to sell even more shredded wheat biscuits. Breakfast Food Manufacturer Will Keith Kellogg...
...reports of England's Great Eastern Railway of which he was to be general manager. He met the problems of War time transportation so well that he was knighted by King George, decorated by three governments. He became a British subject in 1919, remarking, "You can't use a visitor's card at a club forever." He was still with Great Eastern when Canada called him to revive the badly managed debt-gathering lines that became Canadian National...