Word: visitor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another notable literary event took place at Oxford, last week. When Princess Elizabeth visited the university to receive an honorary doctorate of civil law, the "OUDS" (pronounced OWDS-the Oxford University Dramatic Society) produced a masque in her honor. Oxford had not entertained a royal visitor with this traditional Renaissance theatrical since 1636, when Charles I and his Queen Henrietta Maria paid a call*. In sunlit, flower-decked Radcliffe Quadrangle at University College, Elizabeth was ensconced beneath a blue-&-gold canopy while from a swan-shaped chariot (drawn by redheaded twins) Venus and Neptune delivered their welcoming speeches. Beneath...
...French Hotchkiss machine gun, uncle to Poets William Rose Benet and the late Stephen Vincent Benet; in Washington. Benet sold the Hotchkiss, which he perfected to fire 550 shots a minute, to all comers, but was touchy about his reputation as a "merchant of death," once reassured a visitor that "my fingers are not dripping blood this morning...
Face-to-face: the Venus de Milo and Marilyn Buferd, Venus d'Atlantic City ('46). Paris-visitor Miss Buferd, who was dressed to disadvantage, has a 35½-in. bust and a 25½-in. waist, no match for Milo, who is 39 in. around the middle...
Everyone is welcome at the Sills house and Casey remembers everyone's name. Popular Mrs. Sills chatters over her teacups, gives students a homey feeling (to a distinguished visitor who had called himself an s.o.b., she exclaimed: "Oh, you have an S.O.B.?" as if it were an honorary degree). The Sills have never grown used to visiting celebrities. Once Lord Dunsany left his shoes outside his door for a servant to shine. In the morning they had been shined-by Casey himself...
...future, a convention of resort operators and tourist officials decided in Lethbridge last week, Alberta would use the word "visitor" instead of the crassly commercial word "tourist...