Word: visitor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Maoris, the visitor was Te Rangi Hiroa (The-Heavens-Streaked-with-the-Sun). The outside world knows him as Sir Peter Buck, onetime member of New Zealand's Parliament, major in World War I, now head of Honolulu's Bishop Museum, traveling professor at Yale and the world's leading authority on Polynesian anthropology. To the Pacific Science Congress, meeting at Auckland last week, Sir Peter brought along some distinguished delegates. Under his guidance they came to learn more about his mother's people, the vigorous islanders who fought the New Zealand whites until...
There was nothing wrong with what the public liked. Old Models was painted with super-photographic realism and depth perception, qualities in Harnett which experts acknowledge and admire too. More than one visitor absently tried to flick the dust off its violin. Breaking the Home Ties, though as bluntly aimed to draw tears as a punch in the eye, is nevertheless an expertly painted scene of the young man's departure for the big city. When first shown, at Chicago's Columbian Exposition in 1893, visitors wore out three carpets in the rush to admire...
...typical scene of the novel is London in the blackout of 1942; the relations of human beings to each other have become fragmentary, indefinable and constantly subject to shock. To the apartment of attractive Stella Rodney comes a visitor known to her only as Harrison. He tries to argue her into being seduced and fails. He makes fantastic charges about Stella's friend and faithful lover, Captain Robert Kelway, and, for a time, fails to make the fantastic believable...
Last week he received visitors in his paneled office, where an antique pendulum clock loudly ticks among the modern furnishings. Usually he slid out from behind his big desk to sit beside the visitor on a comfortable red leather sofa. At week's end he watched as chubby, square-jawed James Webb was sworn in as his Under Secretary. Said Acheson: "I have here your commission . . . I hand it to you and congratulate myself...
...Carr, a top agent of the wartime Soviet spy ring in Canada. Carr was turned over to the U.S. Immigration Department to await a deportation hearing on Ellis Island. There he was joined by his wife, who had come down to the U.S. from Toronto last December without a visitor's permit, and had stayed beyond the 29-day limit. Mrs. Carr was asked if she knew that her husband was a Russian spy. Said she: "I suppose...