Word: guested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like California, many U. S. States permit a paying passenger to recover for auto injuries caused by a driver's negligence, but limit non-paying passenger or guest recoveries to cases where the driver was grossly negligent or drunk. In both Walker v. Adamson and McCann v. Hoffman et al, the injured passengers had shared or were expected to share in the expenses of the trip. But, said California's Supreme Court, where the parties are ''engaged on a business venture for their mutual advantage," then sharing expenses makes a guest a paying passenger; whereas, when...
...sustaining long passages, often given to inexplicable changes of pace. But Hollywood had little doubt of Janssen's worth. At the end of the concert they stood and applauded for seven minutes. Conductor Otto Klemperer said he was "overwhelmed." Forty-two hostesses invited him to their parties as guest of honor...
...week of speechmaking and fun. Will Loomis of the La Grange 111. Citizen helped start things with the topic. "Where do we go from here?'" Then the editors were shown a cooking school film entitled The Bride Wakes Up and heard from the folksy syndicate poet. Edgar A. Guest. Ford Motor Co. scheduled a lunch at Dearborn Inn, a trip through Greenfield Village and a speech by its official spokesman, William J. Cameron. General Motors Corp. offered a tour of its Pontiac plant and a free Pontiac to the editor who would write and publish the best story about...
...their national convention in Chicago last week understood that King George VI's personal osteopath was to make them a speech and thus put a royal gloss on their rising profession. Dr. W. Kelman Macdonald of Edinburgh, who was the American Osteopathic Association's chief guest, does not belong to the King's medical household. Nearest approach to an osteopath in that prize group of British doctors is the Manipulative Surgeon to the King Sir Morton Smart...
Except for notoriously bad equipment, nothing had threatened the prospects of Covent Garden's Coronation operas (TIME, May 3). Director Sir Thomas Beecham had engaged such guest conductors as Wilhelm Furtwängler, John Barbirolli, Francesco Salfi, Artur Rodzinski, Fritz Reiner. Eugene Goossens of the Cincinnati Symphony had been hired to conduct the world premiere of Don Juan de Manara, a bloodthirsty opera differing widely from Mozart's Don Giovanni, which he had composed for the late Arnold Bennett's libretto. He had succeeded in combining with his own company the Paris Grand Opera...