Word: visitor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Write a Letter. During the previous weekend, thousands of visitors had been welcomed at the club to watch the famed Masters' Tournament (TIME, April 19). Now, as Ike and George vanished behind the club's waist-high thorn hedge, every visitor was politely turned back at the entrance by a uniformed Pinkerton guard. Anyone who asked to communicate with Ike was told to write him a letter...
...surest way for a U.S. visitor in Canada to start an argument is to ask a Canadian: "Why don't you come into a customs union with us?" A customs union, or some kind of economic union between the two countries, has been mooted off & on for 99 years.* Now ERP and Canada's increasingly close economic ties with the U.S. have made it a very live issue...
Fast-moving Mr. Taylor's liking for keeping everyone stirred up sometimes palls on his underlings. Once when a visitor asked what all the uproar was in Taylor's office, a bored stenographer answered: "It's just Reese making a new kind of oil again: turmoil...
Back at the White House, Harry Truman barely had time to wash up a bit before playing host to a royal visitor: Belgium's Regent Charles-Theodore-Henri-Antoine Meinrad, Count of Flanders. Prince Charles arrived amid a din of sirens. He wore the khaki uniform of a major general, was accompanied by Belgian Premier Paul-Henri Spaak. A tall young man with a penchant for playing ping-pong, he looked rather bored...
Since the first visitor crossed its threshold, more than 2,500,000 have wandered along the Huntington's magnificent cactus beds, orange groves and flower gardens, stopped to peer at the library's $50,000 Gutenberg Bible, and climbed the art gallery's marble stairs to take whispered popularity polls among the portraits. To San Marino each year come scholars to dig through treasures that range from the Ellesmere Chaucer manuscript (best text of the Canterbury Tales) to the manuscript of Stevenson's Kidnapped...