Word: visitor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Governor Murray is a bookish man. His library of some 5,000 volumes is a precious possession. His reading is deep, wide, mostly classical. Many a visitor leaves him with a sense of astonishment at his erudition, his ability to quote and date and cite. Constitutional government is his specialty. The late great Champ Clark, observing him in the House, called him one of the greatest constitutional experts and parliamentarians ever to sit in Congress...
...this review it has been possible to analyze briefly only the most important pieces in a collection which is rounded out, however, by representative works by lesser personalities: I may mention as worthy of the visitor's attention two characteristic marbles by Donatello's follower Antonio Rossellino, an idealized St. Sebastian by Civitali, three typical terra-cottas by della Robbia, and, among the North Italians, the sharply outlined profiles of the Storzas by Amadeo, and Riccio's Entombment with the figures clad in classical garments...
...title. Dynamic, downright in his utter "rightness," often sententious and rhetorical in public and private utterances, Dr. Butler serves the U. S. as an unofficial ambassador-at-large. He is at home anywhere. He is a member of the Institut de France, was the first unofficial foreign visitor ever to be received by the French Academy. He has advised the British Cabinet, lectured the Reichstag in German...
...Lord Willingdon well knew, Indian Nationalists were celebrating the third anniversary of St. Gandhi's declaration of independence. The Mahatma himself, rewarded for his good behavior in jail by permission to receive one visitor each week, squatted in his cell and talked to Disciple Madeline Slade about the two pounds he has gained. But outside Gandhites were far from peaceful...
...onetime chairman of the War Industries Board, and Edward Nash Hurley, Chicago banker and onetime chairman of the Shipping Board. For active president of R. F. C. was needed a man with a repu tation for vigor as well as for banking. Mr. Hoover chose his week-end visitor, Charles Gates Dawes...