Word: guested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Horizon at Juan-les-Pins which he has rented from oldtime Actress Maxine Elliott. Last week Britons viewed bug-eyed in their illustrated papers pictures of this Hollywood setting, complete with ''artificial moonlight" and a practical joke swimming chute. Fun is had when a guest sits down and lets go, only to discover too late that he is sliding 30 feet down on abrasive cement...
...unexpected guest in 1923 at a Versailles fete which raised only $5,000 to restore the French Bourbon kings' crumbling Versailles and Trianon palaces, John D. Rockefeller Jr. was shocked by their state of decay, gave the Comité $1,000,000. His workmen did a thorough Rockefeller job of repair. Later Mr. Rockefeller gave $2,080,000 more, some of it to restore the War-shelled Cathedral of Reims and to put the château of Fontainebleau in shape...
...Denver early next morning Governor Edwin C. Johnson and Mayor Benjamin F. Stapleton, both Democrats, were at the station to greet Colorado's distinguished guest. The party piled into automobiles and, with Nominee Landon leaning out to shake hands wherever his car stopped, motored through Denver and out to a rented 1,200-acre ranch near Estes Park, in Roosevelt National Forest, where the Landon family was to spend the summer. In the big, low, rambling ranch-house that afternoon newshawks found the Republican nominee stretched out before a log fire in breeches and windbreaker, scratching away...
Chief ministerial antagonist of Dr. Kagawa was Dr. J. Frank Norris, blatant Baptist who called him a Communist, held rival meetings when the gentle Japanese was in Rochester last April, tried to get the Southern Baptist Convention to scratch him as a guest speaker last month (TIME, June i). Because Dr. Kagawa has sponsored seven kinds of successful cooperative movements in Japan and because he expounded them wherever he found listeners in the U. S., some businessmen professed to be alarmed. Warned Tide, advertising monthly: "What Dr. Kagawa and his cohorts mean to advertising in the long view is more...
...play six nights and one matinee a week at Cleveland's Great Lakes Exposition, a Great Lakes Symphony was organized, drawing 100 men from the Cleveland Symphony, Detroit Symphony. New York Philharmonic Symphony. Guest leaders during the summer were to be Hans Kindler of Washington, D. C., Erno Rapee of the radio, Frank Black. National Broadcasting Co.'s general musical director. Karl Krueger of Kansas City and that most ubiquitous of summer conductors, Jose Iturbi. Also during the summer in Cleveland's Public Auditorium the Pittsburgh and Cincinnati Symphonies would be sandwiched in between free concerts...