Word: visitor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Potsdam in 1747 went Johann Sebastian Bach, by royal invitation, and was joyfully received by "the most distinguished flute player in Europe," King Frederick the Great. Himself an amateur versifier and composer, Frederick asked his famed visitor to improvise on a royal theme. Bach forthwith obliged, extemporized a three-voice fugue. Frederick, delighted but still royal, thereupon set a more difficult task: development of his original theme into a six-part fugue. That was a stumper, even for the 62-year-old master; to make things worse, Frederick wished the assignment worked out in his presence...
...this over-lectured community the more announcement of one of more series of public lectures, by a fugitive visitor, cannot of itself now be expected to realize the ends desired by the donor," he said
...estuary to Buenos Aires on the Argentine side. Each cruiser explained she came only to make a 48-hour courtesy call, give her crew shore leave, take on supplies and repair wear & tear sustained during many weeks at sea, not battle damage. Uruguay and Argentina each welcomed its visitor, though the Argentines left party-throwing to the B. A. British colony, especially to New Zealanders, whose Navy's pride Achilles...
Soon after their marriage in Germany in 1705, Prince George Augustus, who regarded gallantry as the duty of a prince, punctiliously took a mistress in the person of an English visitor, the charming Henrietta Howard, later Lady Suffolk. Caroline allowed no displeasure to appear and his foresighted grandmother "regarded the affair as eminently suitable, since her grandson would now have a chance of improving his English." Prince George, his wife and mistress amicably made their way to the English court on the accession of the House of Hanover...
Ellis Island announced that General Walter Krivitsky, ex-Shmelka Ginsberg, onetime member of the Soviet Military Intelligence, who told tales all over the Saturday Evening Post and Dies Committee, had left the U. S. for parts undivulged. Reason: his visitor's permit for the U. S. would have expired in three days...