Word: guested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attraction for California's Governor Goodwin Jess Knight, who travels tirelessly around the state with his big right hand ready for the shake and his vocal cords for the speech. But last week "Goody" Knight conspicuously stayed away from a banner Republican gathering in Southern California. Reason: the guest of honor was Vice President Richard Nixon, a fellow Californian whose hand Governor Knight prefers not to shake...
...easiest possible diplomatic trip: the hop across the border for an official visit to Canada. Last week, while the controversy over the Yalta papers boiled up at home (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Dulles acted on a long-standing invitation and flew to Ottawa for a two-day stay as the guest of Governor-General Vincent Massey...
...leisurely weekend of social fun and political games at the executive mansion in Albany, New York's Democratic Governor W. Averell Harriman and his guest, Chicago Lawyer Adlai Stevenson, greeted each other, smilingly discovered their neckties were of the same color and design. Asked whether he thought that President Eisenhower would run for reelection in 1956, Stevenson, always cagy about his own political future, replied: "I suspect he will." Later, the two leading contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination next year (although Harriman is still on record as favoring Stevenson) put their heads together privately, compared designs...
...cranberry cook, like most of the help, is Norweigian, while the customers are almost all native Bostonians. Each guest was greeted by a hostess, who was also my adviser on what's good that's Norwegian. Among her suggestions was whale steak. I replied that pickled herring would suffice. As I gulped water she apologized for the herrings' appearance; "The goats' choose sauce is all gone." Relieved, I asked her if there were my more special Norwegian recipes. Her answer was a copy of Ola's Norwegian Cook Book describing cucumber sandwiches, with the bread dipped in sherry, the vaguely...
...abrupt enough; the macabre spirit wears off too early in the evening. The play's humor reaches its peak in the second act, when the freshly killed Bennett, his head covered with a lampshade, sways back and forth in the living room while the female Honeys entertain a guest. From this point on, the author's morbid inspiration slowly flickers out, and the humor of the last act consists largely of geographical jokes ("Sinning is in its infancy in Boston") and the standard Irish dialogue that is contributed by two standard Irish cops. Logically, the denouement could probably...