Word: visitor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile Gerhart politely told a fellow passenger, a free-lance reporter named Richard Yaffe, just how his one-man escape act had been worked. He had simply gone to Manhattan's Pier 88, bought a 25? visitor's ticket to the Batory, and gone aboard. When the ship got past Ambrose Light, he reported to the purser and paid for passage. "I gave the U.S. authorities a chance to correct their uncivilized attitude toward my person, and to stop using me as a bogey man," said Gerhart. "But [they] did not take the chance. I have another purpose...
Manhattan's skyline, he wrote, consisted of "high skyscrapers and the glitter of electric advertising . . . intended to daze the unprepared visitor and muddle his ideas." Manhattan's culture provided "pseudoscientific pamphlets decorated with a standard cover: a painted man indecently kissing a woman." Even the kids were corrupt. "Steel handcuffs for small children," he reported, "attracted our attention in a toyshop...
...flag-draped platform in Philadelphia, a white-bearded man in plug hat and frock coat stood towering over President Ulysses S. Grant. The visitor was Dom Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil, who had come north on the British liner Hevelius for the U.S.'s centennial exposition. When a technician explained to him that the newly invented Corliss steam engine in Machinery Hall made some 36 revolutions a minute, Dom Pedro cracked: "That is better than our Latin American republics...
...many a visitor from foreign lands, La Pipelette might seem expendable. The concierge's duty, wrote a German essayist some years ago, is "to open the front door for tenants because they have no keys. Why have they no keys? Because there is a concierge to open the front door...
...Rose & Pink Stucco. Four months ago, Rossellini arrived in Hollywood and called on the Lindstroms. Husband Peter, who took a liking to the visitor, urged Ingrid to accept Rossellini's invitation to make a picture on Stromboli. Roberto, a balding, middle-aged (43) man with an estranged wife and a five-year-old son, joyfully hurried home. In preparation for the arrival of his famous star, it was reported, he took a course of reducing baths...