Word: guested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...schedule ground on. Sunday afternoon King dropped by and drove his guest to the Gatineau Hills for a windy walk. Monday morning Clem Attlee sat by a coal fire at Earnscliffe and was interviewed by reporters. He talked only in generalities, about foreign trade chiefly. Then, as visiting dignitaries always do, he stepped out to Ottawa's Confederation Square, laid a wreath at the foot of the city's World War I memorial...
Lastly, Cousin Clem, like a good guest, said his thanks. In a jammed House of Commons chamber he told Canadians how much he appreciated what they had done for Britain during the war. With one eye on Canada's evident riches, he could not resist reciting England's shortages-food, coal, "sheets, blankets, curtains, pots & pans and crockery," clothing, shoes, furniture. But all was not dark in the Isles. He quoted Ralph Waldo Emerson: Britain "has a secret vigour and a pulse like a cannon." Canada, he said, is "the new shoot from the old stem...
...WHISTLING LEGS - Roman McDougald - Simon & Schuster ($2). The ingredients, are old, old stuff: the detective who leaves his bride on their wedding night, the client who suspects that the suicide is really murder, the wife whose hobby is love affairs, the mysterious house guest and, finally, the newly invented explosive. But it is served up with such a flourish of fresh parsley that you'd hardly recognize it as warmed-over hash...
...Excellency Pedro G. Beltran, the Peruvian ambassador, was Harvard's VIP (Very Important Person) guest Wednesday. He was received by David M. Little '17, Secretary to the University, in the morning and then toured the Yard, the libraries, and Fogg Museum...
Admiral William F. Halsey, guest of honor at a Los Angeles dinner, met an old friend, Mrs. Patricia Smart, fell into the swing of civilian life with no trouble...