Word: visitor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Colby. The game was characterized by the decisive character of the scores made by players on each side. A feature of the match was the long struggle between G. P. Webber '33 of Harvard, and Taylor of Colby, ending in a 7-5, 12-10 victory for the visitor...
...procedure of befuddling a speak-easy visitor and inducing him to sign checks, often raised later, is known in the underworld as "giving him the circus." Circus victims, part of whose money goes to the taxicab driver who steers them to the evil retreat, are usually so ashamed of themselves afterward that they fail to report to the police. This racket, Police Commissioner Edward P. Mulrooney told the New York Bond Club two months ago, is one which the police are particularly anxious to stamp out. His speech did not fall on entirely deaf ears. Last week one New Yorker...
...poetry to him. Saint-Beuve's library was soon vibrating to the warm emotional tone with which a young man reads poetry, particularly when the poetry happens to be his own. The great critic listened with nostalgic enthusiasm to a succession of vibrant and polished stanzas, and when the visitor had departed he turned to his desk and added in PostScript to a letter "There is among us a boy full of genius...
Said Publisher Samuel Emory Thomason to his visitor: 'I want you to know, Bertie, that we're going ahead with...
...When a visitor comes to Kirkland House it is to the Library, lodged in the old Hicks House on Boylston Street, that he is first taken. Connected with the main quadrangle by a flagrantly pea-green covered passage, the Library fills all three floors of the attractive colonial farm-house. Here a man can climb with his book up to the low-ceilinged attic rooms and can taste the joy of seclusion before an open-fire. With all its charm there are natural inconveniences, and perhaps for ordinary table-studying the other House libraries are better equipped. The selection...