Word: guested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mother's Day, Edgar A. ("Eddie") Guest ground out his daily "pome" in the Detroit Free Press...
...this sort of banal jingling, 65-year-old Eddie Guest was hard to beat, at least as far as the Free Press's circulation department was concerned. But in the rival Detroit News, 58-year-old Anne Campbell, a grandmother herself, did her level best...
...days a week for 25 years, Anne Campbell has been turning out pieces like that, rarely any better and seldom any worse. She has been at it indefatigably since 1922, when the News began to look around the city room for someone to offset the already popular Poetical Guest. The searchers for talent could find no one with the same flair for carefully chopped meter, the same tin ear for prosody, and the same big heart. Anne heard about the search from her husband, George Washington Stark, then News city editor (and now a columnist), cried...
There were greetings from Fans Tallulah Bankhead, Billie Burke and Henry Ford II, and among the guests was Edgar Guest himself, who leaned over Anne's armful of roses, bussed her soundly and said to the audience: "There is no one for whom I have greater affection...
...From the poem, Mother's Day, copyright 1947 by Edgar A. Guest...