Word: visitor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...issue: A "3,000-year-old bas-relief of priceless worth," showing Assyrian gentlemen, playing the saxophone, their ladies drinking cocktails through straws at a bar. Scenes of "Al Capone at Home," showing the gangster's "Louis Quinze" boudoir through an enormous circular bank-vault door; an unwary visitor plunging through a trap door as Capone, sitting at a richly carved desk, presses a pushbutton; Capone's "daughter" stepping into her armored limousine big as a moving van. A similar but not so expert array of faked pictures was published April 1 by the Chicago Daily News Midweek...
...Edwin Thompson, Lord Mayor of Liverpool, lately called on President Hoover. Last week he broke the White House tradition whereby a visitor never quotes the President. He told a luncheon audience in Manhattan: "President Hoover said he felt a great deal of the difficulties of the present commercial situation were due to the mental condition of business...
...visitor in Chicago two or three weeks ago and made a personal appearance on the Thursday night broadcast. At no time was it possible to tell whether it was Rin or Corwin one was listening...
Seven minutes after Delivery Time, the visitor and his host from Pynchon & Co. were startled by the great electric gong which calls the Exchange to order. They saw Vice President Allen Ledyard Lindley standing on the Rostrum, grave and silent. The hum of trading dwindled to awful silence. A moment later the ticker flashed to the ends of the country the message: PYNCHON & CO SUSPENDED FOR INSOLVENCY...
...death is the story of a poor young tennis player (Mr. Overman), who must pawn a cup he has not quite won for keeps. Included in the complications are a fake holdup, a real holdup, beer, neighbors, a bull pup, a baby. Also joining in the ruckus is a visitor from Atlanta whose attempt at the dialect of that city is an atrocity...