Word: guested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...former governor will be a guest of the School of Public Administration faculty at a dinner this evening in the Faculty Club, while President Conant will honor him tomorrow evening at dinner. Three luncheons at the Society of Fellows dining hall, to which faculty members will be invited, are scheduled today, tomorrow, and Thursday...
...keep himself in the public eye. He had welcomed the U.N. to Hunter College, paid tribute to Cardinal Francis J. Spellman on his return from Rome, spoken at a dinner honoring Winston Churchill, opened the season for the New York Giants by tossing out the first ball, been guest of honor at the Washington correspondents' Gridiron Dinner, taken his family to the circus at Madison Square Garden (see cut), and averaged some three speeches a week in Albany...
...such sorrows were-a, pleasure alongside the unnatural disaster which threatened last week. Leo ("The Lip") Durocher, the natty and cultivated friend of the great, the famed radio guest star, the manager of the hottest Dodger team Ebbets Field has yet known-"Mr. Brooklyn" himself-was in court facing five years in jail just because he was accused of slugging a heckler...
Madame Garnett's gangling young son, who had been playing in some uncut shrubbery during the show, joined his parents inside after it was over. Her husband, an Italian businessman, poured Mumm's champagne in honor of the occasion. The guests filed out happy and admiring. Gushed a fluttery, middle-aged American guest: "It is very difficult to get materials, you know. To do a show under these conditions deserves-" Stifled by emotion, she applauded lightly with gloved hands...
...plushy main dining room of the Buenos Aires Plaza Hotel, the British Chamber of Commerce sat down to its monthly luncheon. Guest of honor: Viscount Templewood, the suave old Sir Samuel Hoare of Baldwin-Chamberlain diplomacy, visiting Argentina in the cause of British commerce. Also present: half the Argentine Cabinet. As the savory was cleared away and the Viscount rose to speak, an unidentified British businessman leaped from his place and yelled: "Now you can talk to these people as they should be talked...