Word: guested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...substitute for Fred Allen's Town Hall Tonight. Old Vaudevillian Norman Frescott, who takes over from Allen July 6, claims that his program will be the most diverse and complicated ever. "The audience asks the announcer a question," facetiously says he, "the announcer puts a question to a guest star, who puts one to the band leader, who puts one to the soprano. And after the program, the sponsor puts...
Wishing to add two guest rooms to his house in Framingham, Mass., Son-Secretary James Roosevelt, went to a bank to borrow $2,500. The bank sent his application to the Federal Housing Administration in a routine way. Son James, knowing the Housing Act, offered to bet 50? that FHA would turn it down because the rooms were to be separated from his garage by about 24 inches, therefore not technically part of the building. FHA turned down the application. So the astonished bank lent Son James $2,500 on his face...
Last winter, Editor Sedgwick, an inveterate globetrotter, visited Rightist Spain as the guest of the Franco Government-the kind of junket objective journalists usually turn down. When Guest Sedgwick reported that "the liberal spirit is clearly in the ascendant'' in Franco Spain, he brought upon himself unmeasured condemnation from dozens of liberal pro-Loyalist writers. Smartly, Mr. Sedgwick returned the blows. During Editor Sed-wick's recent travels, his place has been taken by wiry, effervescent Editor Edward Augustus Weeks Jr. La.;t week, 40-year-old "Ted" Weeks assumed the hallowed title of editor-in-chief...
...moving about in his salad. Closer inspection revealed it to be a worm. Somewhat disturbed, he called the head waitress--one of the more "nationalistic" of the head waitresses--to look at the little stranger. The good lady studied the creature carefully before making any comment: "An Inter-House guest, I suppose...
...book is not in its outline of Egyptian history or its use of Egyptian art but in its presentation of the limpidly human chronicles, hymns, love poems, adages, medical prescriptions and fairy tales which make up the world's oldest written literature. A proverb: "If thou art a guest at the table of one who is greater than thou, take what he may offer thee as it is set before thee. Fix thy gaze at what is before thee, and pierce not thy host with many glances, for it is an abomination to force thy notice upon him. . . ." From...