Word: guested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Arlie Bock will be the guest of honor at the weekly House dinner at Adams House tonight and will talk afterwards on "Some Backgrounds of Human Trouble." Only members of Adams House may attend...
...Vandenberg, who year ago made her debut as a pianist with the Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestra, contrived to make news. Last fortnight, she was the central figure in a de luxe musicale given by her father at the Sulgrave Club in honor of his own 54th birthday. The Vandenberg guest list of 300 included, as well as two Supreme Court Justices, half-a-dozen Ambassadors and a quorum of top-ranking Republicans, a good handful of anti-Roosevelt Democrats like Montana's Wheeler, Missouri's Clark and Rhode Island's Gerry. Washington political wiseacres promptly concluded that...
...warmed to his task and, month ago, pushed on up into Austria to confer with chunky President Wilhelm Miklas. To cheering Viennese engineering students he proclaimed "Statesmen seek peace through laws and conferences, sometimes forgetting that engineers can give them the things that make peace." Nine days later, with Guest Hoover then in Poland, Austrian Host Miklas lost his job and German troops took possession of Austria...
Serge Prokofieff, famed Russian modernist composer, has a scunner against Boston. Seven years ago, when his Fourth Symphony was premièred there, supercilious Bostonians pooh-poohed it, critics even dared to suggest that it was written in too much of a hurry. Last week blond, lumbering Prokofieff, guest-conducting the Boston Symphony, evened the score. "If the public in Boston cannot understand my serious music," said irate Composer Prokofieff, "I'm going to give them simple things." One of the simple things was his Peter and the Wolf, a musical fairy tale written to teach the various sounds...
Joseph A. Schumpeter, George F. Baker Professor of Economics will be the guest of honor at the weekly Adams House dinner tonight and will speak afterwards on "The Sources of Anti-Democratic Tendencies in the World of Today." Only members of Adams House are invited to attend...