Word: guested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...asked Mr. Roosevelt whether the Administration's known intent to ask Congress for still more money for a bigger Big Navy means that he favors a "two-ocean navy." That phrase, said the President, is a beautiful slogan, meaningless in practice. Then he turned to a press-conference guest, Publisher Joe Patterson of the New York Daily News, said the same thing applies to that gentleman's favorite epigram ("Two Ships For One"). What the U. S. must have, the President went on, is a Navy big enough for its maximum, varying defense needs in any ocean...
Herbert Hoover, irked at the needling of his plan-embargo of only "offensive weapons"-by military experts (who called it "impractical"), went on the air to outline more fully his reasons. Lately Mr. Hoover has been the unpublicized guest of honor at a series of unpublicized but very serious little dinners. The other guests are Republicans who have high hopes of a GOP resurgence in 1940. At one of these dinners last week ex-President Hoover feelingly referred to ex-Hero Lindbergh. Lindbergh, said he, was an earnest, sincere young American who succumbed to some rotten advice...
Since then the Chicago Woman's Symphony has had one guest conductor after another, with results that critics found scarcely an improvement on the Sundstrom era. But last week it sported a brand-new conductor, hoped this one was for keeps. This time the conductor was a man: pint-sized, cadaverous Izler Solomon (TIME, March 27). Mr. Solomon started by firing six women, cowed five more into resigning, added 15 new players. Chicago wits nicknamed the orchestra "Solomon and his Wives," "87 Girls and a Man." But when Solomon led his black-dressed musical harem through Mendelssohn...
House dining hall privileges for Freshmen will be continued this year beginning today. Freshmen will be allowed to take one meal a week as the guest of an upperclassman in any one of the Houses...
...upperclassman who is the Freshman's host must countersign an inter-House eating slip, and the charge will be made to the Freshman's account at the Union. Both host and guest must sign a guest slip, giving the class and college address of each...