Word: guested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Speaking his piece on the third and last day, Herr Hitler (whose surprising honored guest was George Astachov, Russian Chargeé d'Affaires) was a little more critical. He lamented that no artists had recorded any of the great events in National Socialist Germany with skill, talent and force comparable with paintings of other epochs...
...tried to explain that the decoration was forced on him and he could not gracefully refuse. But that was not the case. He knew that he was to receive some honor, requested that there be no ceremony. At a dinner party one evening, Marshal Göring, the last guest to arrive, gave Lindbergh the medal in a case, saying simply, "By order of the Führer I give 'you this." Lindbergh frankly says he was as glad to get it as the decorations of other nations. Ideologies in international politics are not his meat...
...Heidelberg beer hall light-hearted William Bardwell Curts, 20-year-old American student, indulged his alcoholic fancy by scrawling a humorous verse on the guest book...
...Meadow Brook's turquoise-blue stands realized-a little sadly-that even this, Britain's best-of-all teams since the War (Bob Skene, Aidan Roark, Gerald Balding, Eric Tyrrell-Martin) was no match for the U. S. four: Mike Phipps, Tommy Hitchcock, Stewart Iglehart, Winston Guest. Fortnight ago, in the first of the two-out-of-three-game series, they were trounced 11-to-7. Last week the drubbing was even worse. The U. S. side won, 9-to-4, retained the Cup that has not crossed the Atlantic since...
...great success. Mike's current patron, Jules Stein of the Music Corporation of America, donated an orchestra. Mike himself showed up with $25 in his pocket which he pyramided to $125 at the gaming tables before the party broke up at 6 a. m. Missing from the guest list were a great many familiar Hollywood partygoers, including fat Elsa Maxwell, cafe society's coast-to-coast whoops-a-daisy. Explained the host: "No phonies...