Word: guested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General Motors.* Charlie Wilson was known to almost no one except G.E. men. In his presidential office on the 45th floor of Manhattan's G.E. building, he had a sunlamp which he turned on whenever he felt a sneeze coming on; a framed copy of Edgar A. Guest's It Couldn't Be Done ("and he did it"); a television set. He took a plaster bust of Lincoln with him to his Washington office...
...months for a picnic, and no beer would be sold at Parris Island for a whole day. Lou's roars of outraged thirst reverberated through the battalions, reached the post exchange just in time. Eventually the picnic went off swimmingly with endless free beer. Special last-minute guest: Master Gunnery Sergeant Diamond...
Also present was one August Hartkorn, a venerable, white-goateed Manhattan handwriting expert, summoned by a Governor's subpoena. Expert Hartkorn, who looks like a character from Life With Father, was a not-too-willing guest; he did not want to get involved in politics, he said. The Governor handed him a Bible, swore him in, commanded him to talk...
...typical day, Hitler rises at 6 a.m., meets his generals at 8 a.m., then plunges into affairs of state. After a hasty lunch at 1:30, he resumes conferences with ministers, party chiefs, generals, takes a two-course dinner. (A recent guest: Italian General Rodolfo Graziani.) After receiving the midnight report on military developments, Hitler goes...
...Disciples of Christ Chaplains met at the Cock Horse Inn last night for a dinner, at which the Reverend Percy Austin, minister of the Christian Church, Everett, was guest of honor, Chaplain Ellwood C. Nance, of the Faculty of the Chaplain School, presided...