Word: visitor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Champion Visitor. The new president had a majestic mien, a Wall Street manner and a Midas touch, which eventually brought to Columbia $120,161,727. He was a new kind of college president, of a type now familiar: an administrator, a speech maker, a fund raiser, and not too much of a scholar...
...whole family was assembled under the roof, together with a lady-in-waiting for Mama and an equerry for Papa, a governess for Mary and one or two tutors for my brothers and myself, 'The Cottage' was full to bursting, so much so that when a puzzled visitor asked where the servants slept, my father answered that he didn't know, but supposed it was in the trees." There were only two bathtubs in the house, both in his parents' rooms. The royal youngsters took their weekly tubs in the nursery and, as they grew...
...Chester, Pa., an interested visitor to the Freedom Train was Colin Kelly III, son of a hero father, now a redheaded seven-year-old. He stared at the historical document which most concerned him: Franklin Roosevelt's recommendation that he be appointed to West Point...
Last week, after a six months' survey of Hawaii's language problem, a visitor from the mainland, Wabash College's Professor W. Norwood Brigance, warned the territory of the penalties of pidgin. Said he: "If the standard speech [continues to be] pidgin English, Hawaii will never fully become a cultural part of the U.S. Politically it may become the 49th state, but its people . . . will be held in contempt...
Most Harvard men whipped out of New Haven soon after the game to leave the crowded restaurants, bars, and fraternities to the celebrating Yalies. Cocktails were on tap in just about every other room, and the Whiffenpoofs must have sung at half the parties. One visitor heard them four times...