Word: visitors
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...possibly pay what the victors were demanding. Calling Wilson a "blind, deaf Don Quixote" and Clemenceau a xenophobe with "one illusion--France, and one disillusion--mankind" (and only at the last moment scratching the purple prose he had reserved for Lloyd George: "this goat-footed bard, this half-human visitor to our age from the hag-ridden magic and enchanted woods of Celtic antiquity"), an outraged Keynes prophesied that the reparations would keep Germany impoverished and ultimately threaten all Europe...
...first meeting in Nairobi was cordial, and Richard dazzled me with remarkable specimens; a friendship was simmering. Beginning preparations for my research in Ethiopia's Afar region, I was a frequent visitor to Nairobi, and Richard offered suggestions and appeared supportive of my efforts. But our conversation always had a dimension of competition, and even though we offered each other advice, in retrospect it was as if we were looking for chinks in each other's armor...
...reserve. Harvard, in cooperation with the Boston Department of Parks, maintains 265 acres of pure greenery for "research and education." Climbing, anyone? The arboretum, now a National Historical Landmark, is over 115 years old and hosts more than 6,000 different species; to try. Free. Open sunrise to sunset; visitor center open 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. (517) 524-1718. T-stop: Forest Hills or Arborway...
...Thursday night meeting of the ICC, the final clubs' governing body, graduates only minimally discussed the sweeping visitor policy changes that occurred in January and February...
...steps from the museum, across Cambridge Turnpike, is the house where Emerson lived from 1835 until his death in 1882. Here he entertained the Alcotts, the Hawthornes and Thoreau, who was so frequent a visitor that Emerson's children regarded him as a member of the family. On view in the nursery are the children's 18th century rocking horse and a dollhouse with the original handmade furnishings. Articles of Emerson's clothing--his tall beaver hat, the "Gaberlunzie" robe he probably wore when he got up early and his wife Lydian slept late--hang in other rooms...