Word: guested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...came the Cabinet, in order of importance headed by Secretary of State Hull, tailed by Madam Secretary of Labor Perkins, (She was the only Cabinet member unaccompanied by her spouse, Mr. Paul Wilson.) Second came Congress, as represented by Senator Pat Harrison. Third, to the surprise of many a guest, came Presidential Secretaries Louis McHenry Howe and Stephen T. Early, ahead of the diplomats home for the holidays: Ambassador Long from Rome, Ambassador Weddell from Buenos Aires, Ambassador Bullitt from Moscow, Minister Emmet from The Hague. Others with their relative places in the social scale: Episcopal Bishop Freeman of Washington...
...Author. Onetime guest at Allied headquarters (1915), onetime cavalry major on the Mexican border (1916-17), onetime aide on General Pershing's A. E. F. staff and artillery officer in the line, Major Robert Rutherford Mc-Cormick emerged from the War with a D. S. M., a colonelcy and decided opinions about warfare. Six feet four. 200-lbs.. 54, Tribune Publisher McCormick is variously called dynamic and domineering. For 25 years, in his leisure moments, he has mulled over the "neglected" figure of his hero, Grant, gradually got his militant musings on paper...
Post Road (by Wilbur Daniel Steele & Norma Mitchell; Potter & Haight, producers) starts out as a folksy little drama about some harmless muttonheads who run a roadside boarding house on the highway between New York and Boston. The play is half over before the audience suddenly learns that the guest who said he was a doctor and the young woman who he said was his patient are really a pair of kidnappers and the baby whose delivery the doctor apparently effected, their tiny victim. Authors Steele & Mitchell (Mrs. Steele) are old hands in the theatre. So are Producers Potter & Haight (Double...
Only hitch in the banquet came when Dr. Pease could find no match to light the candles on his cake. At length one guest proffered a cigaret lighter, explained that he used it only to light his way home on winter evenings. Gingerly the president of the Non-Smokers' Protective League took the instrument, lighted the candles. Purred he, "God bless...
...started with a most correct, not to say super-aristocratic, country week-end at which there was an unaccountable surfeit of gooseberry desserts and one unaccountably incorrect guest. Poor dear old-fashioned Daisy suspected her daughter Terry of an ineffable sin with one of her oldest friends, and she went about allaying her frightful suspicions in the only way she knew. In spite of the gooseberries everything seemed to be coming out all right when Terry's tongue slipped. That set gossip wagging. Daisy might have shut her ears to the gossip but when she was assailed by a friendly...