Word: guested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...minutes later, 14,000 miles away, alerted by secret code, a beaming, triumphant Winston Churchill went charging down the corridors of Balmoral Castle, where he was a guest, to tell his vacationing Queen the great news. In London the Admiralty issued a scant, proud statement: "A British atomic weapon has been successfully exploded in the Monte Bello Islands...
More than 700 guests turned out in their best diamonds and shiniest Cadillacs for a lavish, $25,000 Beverly Hills party given by onetime Cinemactress Marion Davies. Her guest of honor: Sobsinger Johnnie Ray, whom she had never met until that evening. Said Marion: "I wanted to have some fun before I die, and this seemed like a good excuse to do it." The party was set mainly in a canopied patio where tables groaned with quartered chickens, beef tenderloins, caviar and champagne. The fish pond was lined with rosebushes hung with gardenias. The bar, long enough to accommodate...
...That must have been a typographical error in the program," suggested a distinguished looking guest...
...only remarkable thing about my career is that I should have spent the better part of my life in the United States, and written my books in the English language, while retaining my Spanish nationality and sentiment, and figuring in the English-speaking world as a sort of permanent guest, familiar, appreciative, and I hope discreet, but still foreign. This is no less true of me intellectually than it is socially, and should not be ignored in considering my work...
...tosses everything into Rahabaat's volcano, they find her piety admirable. When, in a moment of hunger, she eats a portion of roast piglet left on the altar of Rahabaat and the god fails to strike her dead, the natives are sufficiently awed to make her the guest of honor at a fecundity festival. "You're a lost woman," comments Sam Barnfield sadly. "And you," she taunts, "are a dirty-minded...