Word: guested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Family Circle. At 10:25 the guests hushed as Ike and Mamie, just back from morning service at the National Presbyterian Church, slipped into the East Room and took their places beside Dick and Pat Nixon. Ike and Dick both wore short morning coats and striped trousers; Mamie wore a black taffeta dress, and Pat a two-piece green wool suit. At 10:26 a nonfamily guest, California's Senator Bill Knowland, stepped forward and administered the vice-presidential oath to Dick Nixon, who swore fealty to the Constitution with his hand resting upon a Bible that had been...
...stepped forward, the center of attention for Mamie, his son John in dress blues, and his four grandchildren, including 13-month-old Mary Jean (whom Ike had rescued from an upstairs room to come down to see the ceremony). Another Eisenhower guest was retired Navy Captain E. E. ("Swede") Hazlett, one of Ike's good friends from the early days back in Abilene, who once had waxed long and enthusiastically to a happy-go-lucky youngster named Ike about the delights of a service career. ("Calm, frank, laconic and sensible," Swede Hazlett once termed...
...authoritative suggestions to Saud's government officials (as Anglo-Iranian did in Iran). The result has been that nowhere else in the world, where such a single foreign interest so dominates a nation's economy, is there less rancor between government and company, between host and paying guest...
...Manhattan meeting of liquor dealers, Massachusetts' boyish (39) Democratic Senator Jack Kennedy rose to help hail Charles Berns, the co-founding "Charlie" of Manhattan's famed "21" restaurant (see BUSINESS) and guest of honor as a benefactor of Massachusetts' decade-old Brandeis University. Getting a glowing introduction, Jack Kennedy seemed startled, then smiled and disclosed some spirits in his ancestral tree: "My grandfather had a saloon and my father was in the liquor business, and I don't usually get such a warm reception from people to whom my father sold something...
Gamely he tried to roll with each blow in the M.C.'s unctuous volley. The first guest was a Utah farmer who reminded Dempsey that they had sparred as boys. Dempsey stared in blank dismay as the man climbed into the ring, then went into a friendly clinch and clung as if for the bell. Next he was asked to recall the maxim his religious mother taught him. "Go to church and believe in God?" he guessed desperately. "Live by the golden rule and keep goin'," prompted Edwards firmly. "Keep goin'," repeated Dempsey. He kept goin...