Word: guested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shiny new American cars to pay homage to their Queen, Elizabeth II. It was the first durbar (gathering of the princes) since India's turnout for George V in 1911, and the first ever in Africa. Doing her best to match the expectations of her audience, the guest of honor wore an evening dress, bejeweled Garter sash, diamond tiara and an ermine stole. It was a narrow question whether her costume or the excited plumage of her subjects was more incongruous in the noontime tropical heat. But both parties plainly enjoyed each other's getup...
...whole program of eight conferences on different careers open to the college graduate will start Feb. 15 at 8 p.m. in the Leverett House Dining Hall. The first career discussed will be law, with Samuel M. Lane '31 and Samuel D. St. Clair as guest speakers...
Slipping informally into London a year after his atrocities, Haynau stopped one day to inspect the Barclay and Perkins Brewery. No sooner had he scrawled his name in the guest book than the brewers -as the Illustrated London News of Sept. 14, 1850 put it-set up "the most fearful yells and execrations." Neighborhood draymen advanced on The Hyena with their heavy whips, shouting: " 'Oh, this is the fellow that flogged the women, is it!'" A flying squad of police finally dragged him, bloody and beaten, to the safety of a police boat, and, "in the course...
...Dartmouth Undergraduate Council has issued its yearly announcement that everyone coming to this weekend's Winter Carnival will need a guest card from a Dartmouth student to enter any dormitory or fraternity house. The rule is aimed at restricting the number of guests to the limited housing facilities, it said...
...Australia almost every day, and sometimes three or four times a day, lottery barrels revolve with the roar of express trains. Flagged to a halt, the barrel is opened, and a distinguished guest with a chromium-plated "extractor" begins withdrawing white-numbered marbles that bring small fortunes to the holders of correspondingly numbered tickets. Even the bored lottery clerks buy tickets, as recently happened in Western Australia when Clerk Neil Watts, writing down the numbers as they were drawn, shouted, "Hey, that's me!" discovered that he had won a $6,750 jackpot...