Word: guested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...France rated no higher in Moscow than in London and Washington. Then France demanded changes in Dumbarton Oaks and, to her surprise, it was Stalin rather than Roosevelt or Churchill who firmly refused to make revisions before San Francisco-whither, as a result, France will now go as a guest, not as a sponsor. Just to make matters pikestaff-plain. Soviet Ambassador Alexander E. Bogomolov elucidated Russian realism v. French realism for Diplomat Maurice Dejean of the Quai d'Orsay: "France should not try to sing above her range...
...musty elegance of Dublin's old Shelbourne Hotel, a knowing audience of Irish socialites, critics and Government officials gathered for a song recital. The most conspicuous guest was a resident of the hotel: rotund Tenor John McCormack, 60, who sat on a horsehair sofa in the corner, listening with closed eyes...
...confident that its crossroads listeners-in Anchorage, Alaska, Alamosa, Colo., Hickory, N.C., Siloam Springs, Ark.-will eat up Author Critics, whose past guest-victims have ranged from James Thurber to Lucius Beebe, Emily Hahn to Ilka Chase. KBS is doubly confident because the Book-of-the-Month is offering book prizes for the best letters from listeners. Said a small-town-wise KBS official: "Whenever you give them a prize, they're happy...
Samuel Goldwyn, famed as Hollywood's greatest Malaprop, arrived in England on a special mission for FEA, spent a day among the Oxfordons as the guest of Balliol's dean. To students he made a promise: "For years I have been known for saying 'include me out,' but ... I am giving it up forever. From now on let me say: 'Oxford . . . include...
...there was a reason for the meeting, a reason implicit in the origins, life and particularly the currently manifest destiny of the President's guest...