Word: guested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Problem Solved. As other visitors began to arrive-officials from Shanghai, old friends-Chiang retired to a small guest room. He saw them one by one, if only for a moment, bidding each farewell. After an hour he excused himself and changed into the long blue gown and black jacket traditional of the Chinese gentleman. Outside, it was a clear and unusually warm winter day. As the Gimo stepped into his big, black Cadillac bearing No. 1 on its license plates, the sun was low in the west...
...valet has to be meticulous about keeping familiar things in familiar places: cigarettes, cough drops, bric-a-brac, Kleenex, sharpened pencils. When Porter travels, even his own ashtrays go with him, and he likes them kept so neat that at parties a servant cleans them up almost before a guest can crunch a cigarette out. When Porter went to Philadelphia for Kate's 3½-week tryout, he took along five paintings, including a large Grandma Moses snowscape, to make his hotel suite homelike...
...night bearded Monty Woolley opened in Manhattan in The Man Who Came to Dinner, Porter gave a party for him. The host was the last to arrive, and on his arm was a stout, middle-aged lady (recruited from a circus) whose beard was a little longer than the guest of honor...
...announcing his engagement to Rita Hayworth (he is still married to his first wife; Rita's divorce from Orson Welles became final last November). Said he: "I am going to marry Miss Hayworth as soon as I am free to do so." Cinemactress Hayworth, Aly's house guest in various resorts since they met on the Riviera last summer, quietly announced that she was "in full agreement" with his announcement...
...Toscanini-trained musicians of the NBC Symphony Orchestra blinked, then stared: Was it Frank Sinatra? At first glance, the boyish-looking, new guest conductor was a dead ringer for Frankie: wispy, wire-thin, sallow-cheeked and dark-haired. But when 28-year-old Guido Cantelli stepped to the podium and rapped his baton, the jokes stopped. By the time Guido had driven them through bar-by-bar rehearsals of Hindemith and Haydn without looking at a score-gesturing and singing fa-sol-la-tis to make up for his lack of English-musicians were murmuring about "terrific talent...