Word: guested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deck of the Indianapolis final farewells took place. Host Justo presented his guest with a poncho made of virgin vicuna wool. The two Presidents exchanged a genuine bear hug. Everyone else was shaken by the hand and touched to the heart. The last that Buenos Aires saw of Franklin Roosevelt he was standing on the bridge as the Indianapolis pulled out into sluggish, shoreless Rio de la Plata, waving a blue and white scarf, the national colors of Argentina...
London's sidewalk artists reap a harvest of Sunday coppers by drawing Mrs. Simpson in colored crayon. Meanwhile King Edward at his snuggery declines to receive his friend and recent guest in Scotland, the Hon. Esmond Cecil Harmsworth, son of the No. 2 British Press Tycoon Viscount Rothermere. In his great, mass-conscious penny-press thunders Rothermere: "I have just returned from a trip around the world. . . . Everywhere unstinted praise and admiration of our King! . . . You cannot smuggle the greatest living Englishman off the throne of England during the weekend...
Chairmen will assist in laying out the plans for the discussion, in picking speakers, and in drawing up agenda etc. During the Christmas vacation an effort will be made by the combined conference committees of the three newspapers to interview and arrange for the attendance of the guest speakers...
...Duchess of York, weekending with the Earl & Countess of Pembroke, reacted with hard gaiety on Sunday to a cautious question by a titled guest as to whether the King is resolved to marry Mrs. Simpson. "Everyone knows more than we do," replied the Duchess of York, "we know nothing. Nothing!" Her Royal Highness followed this with a brittle laugh.* To Edinburgh this week traveled the Duke of York to be installed as Grand Master Mason of Scotland...
Joseph F. Dinneen a reporter on the Boston Globe and author of "Ward Eight" and the articles "Murder in Massachusetts" and "The Kingfish of Massachusetts," which recently appeared in Harpers Magazine, will be the guest of honor at the weekly House Dinner on Monday. After dinner he will take in the Upper Commen Room on "A Realistic Approach to Local Politics". Outside guests are welcome to the speech...