Word: guested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have wondered what success is," replied beaming Eddie Guest. "This must...
Edgar Albert Guest is one of the most valuable newspaper properties in the U. S. His daily "poem" for the Detroit Free Press is syndicated in some 200 U. S. papers. But the monetary return therefrom is probably less valuable to the Free Press than the cachet of having employed Guest all his adult life, a fact of which the paper's promotion department never loses sight...
...Eddie Guest was 10 when his parents took him to Detroit from England. His first job was jerking sodas. One of his customers was a Free Press bookkeeper, who helped Eddie get a job marking scores on the Free Press's baseball bulletin board. He was soon copy boy in the editorial rooms, graduated to general reporting, to conducting a weekly column called "Blue Monday." After a while, the column became a daily Free Press feature, and Guest the wonder of the staff for the ease with which he metamorphosed everyday trifles into folksy copy. When the Guests...
...Guest was syndicated nationally. By last week he himself could not recall how many volumes of verse he had composed, guessed that his entire output numbered about 10,000 rhymes. A 937-page Collected Verse informs inquirers as to Eddie Guest's position on everything from diet to Deuteronomy. Examples...
...been a long time since "the missus" has had to get Mr. Guest his meals. The Guests have a fine big house just off the Detroit Golf Club's fairway, a summer home at Pointe Aux Barques, Mich. In addition to his syndicate work, Rhymester Guest has for the past four years boarded a sleeper every Monday night, awakened in Chicago next morning to broadcast verse and chit-chat for Household Finance Corp. Last October he, his wife and daughter went to Hollywood where he was to make three homespun pictures for Universal. He waited around three months while...