Word: guested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...formidable fun. Business associates, invited to his country place for a "quiet lunchtime conference," are not surprised to find a dense crowd milling around on the lawn. When the group eventually thins out enough to cram itself into the dining room for dinner, it sometimes includes a hapless guest who came to the wrong house and found himself swept into the genial Greek maelstrom. Such lost souls generally look to Skouras like old friends. "Haven't seen r you for a long time," he will shout. "How's / everything in St. Louis...
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Romping past the Royal County Hotel, the paraders roused the day's distinguished guest-that horny veteran of the pits and stormy rebel of the Labor Party, Aneurin Bevan himself. Past his hotel balcony streamed rugged oldtimers who well remembered the "bad old days" Nye Bevan liked so much to talk about, and younger, well-dressed miners and their ladies, with pockets bulging with money-more than enough for each to take a holiday to Paris...
...gala grounds went Aneurin Bevan to provide the kind of fighting oratory that goes with the Miners' Gala the way bubble goes with squeak. Girls with hats bearing mottoes, "Cuddle me quick" or "It's now or never," stormed the distinguished guest with autograph books. Miners pranced past with placards that told of deprivations of the past and displayed likenesses of men who had helped in the climb from poverty. All that seemed far away in happy Durham: today miners are a privileged class in Britain. Because Britain so badly needs them, they get better rations and more...