Word: guested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Friends." In the grey stone embassy, light from the blazing chandeliers gleamed on serried ranks of vodka bottles. There were endless toasts -for the glorious Red Army and its beloved leader, Comrade Stalin; for generals, colonels, majors, captains and so on. One guest reported later: "After the toast for the captains the party lost dignity." Thorez chummily first-named the ambassador: "We are all friends, aren't we, Alex, and brothers...
...year-old son of much-quoted chatterbox Lady Astor; from the U.S. after a silent six-week visit. Mother lingered behind, possibly to paste in the family scrapbook a piquant social item from the Des Moines Register; "When [Lady Astor] finished speaking at the . . . tea, one of the guests thanked the speaker profusely. The English noblewoman responded with a sudden kick right on her admirer's posterior. The guest stiffened,then, with a gale of laughter, turned and kicked the Lady right back...
...orchestra at twelve, would have little trouble finding some other podium to wave from. He is a first-rate conductor of Mozart and Strauss operas-and the Metropolitan Opera badly needs additional conductors (one recently died, two others have been ill on & off). Besides, there is the increasingly attractive guest conductors' circuit, with few of the cares and all the pleasures of a regular berth. At week's end, the Minneapolis Symphony snapped him up for eight concerts in October. The only real loser was Pittsburgh...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Guest: Yehudi Menuhin...
Last week, the British Lion was still in Ceylon, but only as a guest. In a Buddhist ceremony in Kandy as old as the island's history, golden-robed chieftains and 100 richly caparisoned elephants (decked in ruby necklaces and white pantaloons) paraded the streets in dressy dignity to celebrate a new independence. Jasmine-decked maidens and bare-breasted Sinhalese youths with bells on their ankles whirled in ancient dances...