Word: guested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rousing Mayfair soiree attended by the Earl of Suffolk, the impulsive guests abandoned all formal arrangements to shed their shoes and dance in the streets to the blaring music of motorcar radios. A prominent guest at many of the parties was the 20-year-old Duke of Kent, Queen Elizabeth's first cousin and the seventh in line to Britain's throne. Wherever young Kent went-and his evenings were invariably full-the action was brisk. One party he attended was held on a yacht and ended only when sea scouts and river police turned up to fish...
...last week, the Daimler people fired her husband (see BUSINESS), and Norah moodily canceled her party. "How could they do it?" she said of her husband's employers, a question that echoed the sentiments of many a party girl toward Britain's spoilsports. As Debutante Felicity Drew, guest of honor at the Thames yacht party put it: "Everyone seemed to enjoy themselves, so it can't have been...
Rancho del Monte ("sounded unpleasantly like a fruit cannery to me") was a 15-room house surrounded by 2,400 acres, and supporting two guest cottages, a bunkhouse, a swimming pool, a tennis court and "a couple of smallish private mountains." At $10 a day per paying guest, it was so far from supporting the Hootons that after four days they were $160 in debt. To begin with, the help was a hindrance. For a wrangler, a dude ranch's jack-of-all-trades, they had Curly, "as stunning as a window dummy and every bit as bright." Curly...
...important function for advisers the help they can give to students to get through the "machinery and red-tape of Harvard." "All the advising system is, in the end," says Martin, "is a substitute for the kind of explanation one would give to a stranger or a guest if he came to one's house...
...first-level restaurant of the Eiffel Tower, high above the rooftops of Paris, 200 guests gathered last week to honor a hero of aviation, Dr. Theodore von Karman, who had reached his 75th birthday. The guest list read like a bluebook of aviation, and most of the guests, now generals, admirals, statesmen or heads of corporations, had known and admired Von Karman and his eccentric genius for decades. Without the principles of aerodynamics that he discovered, they could not be building or flying high-speed modern aircraft...