Word: visitor
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...damply in a small reception hall presided over by a surly owl with satanically gleaming eyes. But there is no apparent way for the new arrival to get out of the room. Then the receptionist makes a quiet suggestion: a few words, perhaps "Open sesame!", to the owl? The visitor speaks, and, lo, the innocent-looking bookcase near the bird swings open, revealing a crowded bar. The visitor is in The Magic Castle, the U.S.'s only private supper club specially devoted to magicians and magic lovers...
...Pick a Card." Gimmicks and gadgetry are not all. The club has an unusually warm atmosphere. "It's the friendliest place I've ever been to," says one recent visitor. "When you stand on the fringe of a group, it opens up to include you." Members, staff, even the bartender patiently introduce people to one another. A cozy fire burns constantly in the air-conditioned bar. Best of all, there are the magicians. The house maintains two strolling legerdemainists, but the member magicians themselves cannot resist trying to fool fellow pros and other guests. One or another...
...days browsing in antique shops and visiting the Imperial Palace and the Temple of Heaven. There was also a three-hour chat with China's Foreign Minister Chen Yi; Malraux blandly called it a tour d'horizon that included cultural relations between the two countries. Next, the visitor was off to see the Lung-men Grottoes near Loyang, the archaeological finds at Sian, and finally, the cave-riddled mountains of Yenan where Mao Tse-tung set up his headquarters after the 6,000-mile Long March...
Details of the decisions arising from the war council would not be known until this week, when Johnson was expected to announce them on television. But he was clearly determined to provide an affirmative answer to the question he recently posed in remarks to a visitor. Said he: "The Communists are pouring more men in all the time. They've suffered their greatest losses. The big question that we are faced with is whether the United States is doing what it ought...
...frayed grey vest, floppy black trousers, and square-toed brogans. One day a demented broker marched into Sage's office. In one hand he held a note demanding that Sage give him $1,200,000; in the other hand he held a bag of dynamite. Sage eased a visitor between himself and the dynamite, dashed for the exit. When the smoke cleared away, the broker was dead, the visitor was badly mangled, Sage was virtually unharmed. The visitor sued Sage, who fought the case through four court trials and never paid him a penny...