Word: guested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President's fame as a hunter as the theme for his table decorations. He dressed little bears in oudoor togs and placed them in various poses around the banquet tables. When the President said that even he as a bear expert could not name the breed, a guest said, "Well, let's call them Teddy bears." The following year the Steiff factory in Giengen, West Germany sold nearly 1,000,000 Teddy bears in America alone, and prosperity of the tiny hamlet where the factory is situated boomed. Accordingly, this year, the townfolk of Giengen will turn...
...steamy half-hour. Wingate bravely bowed to TV protocol and said: "It's been very pleasant." Responded his guest: "I enjoyed it very much." As the WABD switchboard began to blaze, mostly with anti-Churchill calls, Interrogator Wingate began to fume, next day talked threateningly of a libel suit. When reporters caught up with home-bound Randolph on shipboard in New York Harbor, they found him sleeping unperturbed...
...Journal (circ. 180,021) cracked the security curtain with a closeup of Mamie that brought the outside world up to date on her weight (it's down), appearance (she "looked years younger") and morale (she missed Ike). Author of the Journal's gossip exclusive was a fellow guest, Esma Jackson, widow of longtime Journal Publisher Philip L. Jackson...
Ydigoras continued building his good impression as guest of honor at an Organization of American States luncheon, left for home to keep an important engagement: his inauguration, which went off with simple dignity this week in the National Congress building...
...prologue relating it to Biblical menus. Appetizers "almost exactly as we know them," says Author O'Brien, were an integral part of Biblical meals. In the countryside, "where Jesus was teaching, the housewife offered a bowl of vinegar and a piece of bread for dipping, while the guest waited for the table to be laid." An O'Brien appetizer: Burning...