Word: visitor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...home the idea of human responsibility, made the Birlings look like a pack of Victorian villains, Playwright Priestley suddenly begins to backtrack. Perhaps, he suggests, the young girl-whom each Birling had known by a different name-was really a great many different girls. Or perhaps the Birlings' visitor (Thomas Mitchell), who certainly didn't act like a police inspector, wasn't one. Perhaps there had never even been a suicide. Perhaps. . . . In his last 20 minutes, Playwright Priestley has a high old time perhapsing. Unfortunately, he has been prosing for so long before that his last...
This low-cost luxury flowed from no horn of plenty. It resulted from an Alice-in-Wonderland exchange situation. The official exchange rate is 6.5 Peruvian soles for one U.S. dollar. But because there are not enough dollars at this rate to meet the need, the visitor can sell his travelers' checks on the free market (which is not illegal) for anywhere from 10 to 20 soles...
That night González' press secretary called in newspapermen. The Government statement noted the rebirth of the Comintern, accused Cunja of plotting against Chile's independence and meddling in its internal affairs. Visitor Jakasa was pictured as an instruction-bearer from the Yugoslav Minister in Buenos Aires...
...full growth in the 30's when "Wintergreen" and other Leroy Anderson arrangements filled the Stadium when the teams weren't trying. Perfecting its half-time lock step, the Band could soon wind itself through 33 letters in 7 1-2 minutes while simultaneously playing a medley of the visitor's songs. Dormant during the war, the Band reappeared last year doing 128 letters throughout the season, and it was clear that the musicians who could also spell were back...
...hectic trip to Dartmouth and a serenade off the Capitol steps at Concord. Plans are afoot for a similar stunt at Richmond next week. This afternoon, the Band is armed with a new B.U. medley and a top-secret labyrinthian war dance, designed to completely out-maneuver the visitor's attempt. Whether or not the B.U. outfit is as big-time as its partisans would make out, time will tell. Meanwhile, the Band awaits the encounter, possibly thinking of the days some three centuries ago when the cries of Colonists echoed over the woods where the Stadium now stands...