Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were caught with their heads in their diplomatic pouches. For a week the Department had expected a Nazi grab at Denmark and Norway-b,ut not before May 1. The night Hitler jumped the gun, Norway's slight, long-nosed Minister Wilhelm Munthe de Morgenstierne paid a midnight visit to Assistant Secretary of State Adolf Berle. A telephone call from busy Mr. Berle woke Cordell Hull at 1 a.m.: Franklin Roosevelt was allowed to sleep on until 3 a.m. A special train was waiting to return the President to Washington by nightfall. Secretary Hull rushed back. So did Denmark...
...twelve springs Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera has visited Cleveland, and become so popular that it now plays in Public Hall, capacity 9,400. Two years ago eight operas drew 68,000 people, an indoor world record. During the week, music-lovers arrive by special plane from Detroit, by special train from Pittsburgh, Erie, Cincinnati, Buffalo, Columbus, Detroit. Only 40% of the seat-buyers are Clevelanders. There has never been a deficit. Top price is the same as in Manhattan, $7, but there are 1,049 seats at $1. Among other cities on which the Metropolitan calls this year-Boston...
Wrote Newsman Sullivan from Terre Haute two days after: "I visited the plant of the St. Louis Star-Times, in which the column has appeared for some years. . . . I had a pleasant visit with Newspaper Veteran Larner. ... To my unbounded amazement, he told me that he uses some of this column's original typewritten copy to drive home to young reporters the importance of submitting 'clean' copy to the Star-Times composing room. . . . The joker in it, to this reporter, was that composing-room foremen for the past 20 years have berated me for single-spacing...
Bearded Germanophile Poultney Bigelow, 84, good friend and biographer of ex-Kaiser Wilhelm, after a visit to Germany but not to his 81-year-old friend at Doom, returned to the U. S., exclaimed: "I'm so homesick, I can't see straight...
...snorted down countless orchestral tracks in the past 16 years. "I love locomotives," says Composer Honegger, "the way other men love women or animals." A solid, massive-browed, bob-haired man, Honegger rode a New Haven locomotive, clad in beret and white overalls, on his last U. S. visit in 1929. Most of the time he lives in Paris. There Honegger shares a home not with a locomotive but a wife, Pianist Andree Vaurabourg. No Johnny-One-Note, he has written, besides Pacific 231, many a top-notch score, including two big, sombre Biblical works, Le Roi David and Judith...