Word: attendent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...very large. It has been treated to an inspiring spectacle; it has seen an honest and valuable man brutally and inexcusably mauled by the press; it has had excellent reason to suspect that he is the victim of politics; it has cooled its heels on marble, waiting futily to attend a "public" hearing. It has, in short, become embittered and vociferous where once it was amiable...
Delegates from virtually every New England college will be in Cambridge for the next three days to attend the sessions of the Model League of Nations. Harvard is pleased to welcome them and to hope that the meeting will be as successful as its sponsors expect...
...Garden Clubs of America, arriving to attend the Palm Beach Club's annual flower show, were met by "the largest fleet of wheel chairs ever assembled" and trundled off to the conservatory of the Royal Poinciana Hotel, which had been remodeled to resemble the Piazza di Spagna in Rome. Palm Beach alone boasted the presence during the past fortnight of over 100 titled Europeans, including Major General the Earl of Athlone & the Countess of Athlone, Grand Duke Dmitri, Princess Anna Ilynski, Lord Forteviot and Baron & Baroness de Gunzbourg of Paris...
...James Butler was head steward of Manhattan's Hotel Windsor and lived in Mrs. O'Connor's rooming house. He went to Washington to supervise the inaugural supper. The memory of that evening was so nightmarish that when, 24 years later, he was invited to attend President Taft's inaugural ball as a guest, he flatly refused. That year he was living on a 350-acre estate next to John D. Rockefeller near Tarrytown, N. Y. and was virtually the owner of a $15,000,000 grocery business...
...Butler was thrifty. When the racetrack fence needed painting, he painted it on the outside only. When he drove down to Yonkers to attend a race, his squire rode in a disreputable old Ford. For years a band at the racetrack struck up "Wearin' of the Green" whenever a Butler horse won. When Depression affected the track, the band was dispensed with. And it was a Butler rule to sell any horse which did not make money. Next to horses and groceries, Jim Butler devoted himself to Catholic charities, founded a Catholic girls' school at Tarrytown...