Word: guested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thereupon pitched in and helped elect as President its guest of honor at the founding banquet in Cincinnati-William McKinley. Through the subsequent decades N. A. M. worked for the Parcel Post Act, the Federal Reserve Act, the Food & Drug Act, Workmen's Compensation legislation and the Panama Canal. It has always stood for a bigger & better merchant marine, and probably its most notable achievement was in promotion of foreign trade in the days before the Bureau of Foreign & Domestic Commerce. At one time it maintained its own commercial attaches in important foreign business centres, and its voluminous files...
...coaxed up on deck after great labor, but had a disconcerting habit of vanishing into its compartment without warning, before or after it was fired. Her crew of 28 men and four officers (the hardened Captain was 31 years old) lived in a chamber "about the size of the guest bedroom in a beach bungalow," in which the smell of sulfuric acid from the storage batteries mingled with smells from the electric cookstove. Through the out-of-date, foggy periscope of the L-9, the Captain could just make out "a rather blurred image of the nearby seascape." Biggest moments...
President Conant will speak informally as guest of honor tonight at the annual dinner of the New England Alumni Association of Phillips Exeter Academy at 7 o'clock at the Boston Chamber of Commerce...
...might, he could not understand what had persuaded the postage stamp magnate to leave Washington just to be an unannounced guest at a primarily Harvard dinner. He remarked this to a friend nearby, feeling rather superior because of his prowess in recognizing the face of one of the higher-ups in the government. The indulgent laugh of the other after looking at the person indicated failed to ruffle him, and he continued to point out Farley to his other neighbors at the table. With similar effect...
Last week "Death Notice" Burns slipped back into that quiet, inconspicuous pattern after an occasion of delightfully uncomfortable prominence. Prominent Publisher Stern had given a great banquet with no one else than his modest adman as guest of honor. The other guests were 260 local morticians. The menu on which they dined included filet mignon, four varieties of wine, champagne, liqueurs. Fussed and entirely too nervous to eat, Adman Burns bobbed around at the testimonial dinner while Boss Stern told undertakers: "You have made Philadelphia a better place to live in, and a better place to pass...