Word: visitor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bravely as a match flickering in the night, the Paris L'Ordre sought cheer for mankind. "Visit the Hostel of Three Mallets in the Latin Quarter," it advised. There, in subterranean chambers, the visitor sees medieval instruments of torture. St. Catherine's Wheel is most gruesome. It rests on a base studded with nails. A victim bound to the wheel was raised or lowered in relation to the base; as the instrument turned, his flesh was torn at the desired speed and depth...
Murray has never declined the helping hand of Government, which helped him get his original Big Steel contract in 1937 and his contract with Little Steel in 1942. He was a regular visitor to the White House in Franklin Roosevelt's administration. But he still thinks labor should stand on its own feet. His philosophy: "What the Government gives the Government can take away." He has become wary of Harry Truman...
...Manolete was not to be the only star. Mexico's own Silverio Perez took his bull with almost equal skill, got as great an ovation. Determined to outdo Silverio, the visitor from Spain returned to the ring. When Manolete tried a lance (pass with the cape), the bull evaded the cape, drove a horn deep into the Spaniard's left thigh...
George Bernard Shaw, who seldom goes beyond comparing himself with Shakespeare, received a bigger boost from an unidentified woman visitor to the House of Commons. In the central lobby she suddenly began shouting, "Mr. Bernard Shaw is God's right-hand man." She was promptly thrown...
Before trying to cast out Catholicism's mote, Protestantism should consider the beam in its own eye. So says the Roman Catholic Our Sunday Visitor, in an unsigned article entitled "Why Protestantism Is Losing Ground...