Word: guested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...guest columnist in the Houston Press, Oilman-Hotelman Glenn McCarthy raked up some 25 McCarthy rumors and denied them all. Insisted McCarthy: there is no feud between him and fellow Texan Jesse Jones; there is no such thing as a minimum tip at his Shamrock hotel; he is not trying to buy a newspaper, a movie studio, Catalina Island or the St. Louis Browns...
...Edgartown, Mass., Emily Post came to grips with a new problem in etiquette: what does the well-bred hostess do when a guest pilfers a prized gewgaw from the breakfast tray? A few days after Hostess Post's loss at her country home, a discreet item appeared in the local newspaper, touching on the "unpleasant situation" and appealing gently for its correction by "the person, perhaps young and certainly thoughtless, who yielded to impulse...
...York City gave Connie a ticker-tape ride up Broadway. At City Hall, Mayor William O'Dwyer handed him a certificate for "distinguished and exceptional public service." The guest of honor made a little speech thanking folks for turning out "to see the old man of baseball." Said Connie, whose A's are in fourth place but who opens spring training every season by assuring his players they can win the pennant: "I fully intend to manage the Athletics next year...
Last week the Washington Daily News got around to a critique of one of the country's better-known piano players. Wrote News Guest Columnist (and Shoreham Hotel Bandleader) Barnee Breeskin, fresh from half an hour's "elbow-range" observation of Harry Truman...
Crusade in Europe (Thurs. 9 p.m., ABC-TV). Guest: General Brehon Somervell...