Word: visitor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This picture hangs on the first landing of the stairway leading to the second floor of the Museum. It has been placed in this conspicuous position that the casual visitor to the galleries may carry away the remembrance of at least this one fine picture, that the students, hurrying through the lower halls to lectures may perhaps be drawn up the stairway to an inspection of the beauty displayed on the second floor, that lovers of art may see this masterpiece alone and undisturbed by the juxtaposition of greater or inferior...
...found time heavy on his hands. He would, he decided, go and see his old friend Cliff Dailey who ran a grocery and meat store. Cliff was out at lunch when big, jovial Mr. Leavitt marched in. Later Store keeper Dailey returned and stopped to wait on a woman. Visitor Leavitt sauntered to the rear of the store. There at a sink behind a partition he found a man who looked like a truck driver swigging whiskey from a bottle...
Grocer Dailey, though he angrily denied that it was he who had handed the gunny sack to his visitor, declared that Mr. Leavitt was "a victim of circumstances." The President's sister, back from her club meeting in Hollywood, said the same thing about her husband. Brother-in-Law Leavitt also won sympathetic support from a famed father-in-law. Santa Monica's Chief of Police Clarence Webb, whose daughter Fay is the wife of Crooner Rudy Vallee, declared: "I don't believe Leavitt's a bootlegger. I believe his story. But the arrest was legitimate and I'll stand...
...Abraham Flexner, author of "Universities: American, English, and German," in which he criticized American universities and Harvard in particular for the teaching of "rubbish" in their business courses, was a visitor at the Harvard Business School yesterday. As far as could be learned he has not modified his views and will probably restate them in a speech to be given at the Old South Forum on Sunday afternoon...
...visitor steps to the deck of the "City of New York", he is greeted by a guide who is thoroughly familiar with the Expedition, its work, and its achievements. On the deck he is shown the quarters where Admiral Byrd lived and planned and commanded the 84 men of his Expedition. His quarters are preserved nearly intact. Visitors are shown the chart room, where the navigation of the ship on her long and difficult voyages was carried out. Farther aft, in the radio room, what is considered to be one of the most powerful instruments afloat, is to be inspected...