Word: guestly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Woollcott's favorite headgear. On Fifth Avenue he wore a red waistcoat embroidered with headless bodies and bodiless heads. He built himself a magnificent bathroom, decorated it with a tile which showed Woollcott on the toilet seat. His language matched his man ners. He would say to a guest: "You faun's rear end, I hoped we'd seen the last of you," or "Here's our withered harpy back again." "Thank you, you mildewed sheeny," was his way of acknowledging help from Dorothy Parker...
...with Chiang's assent) to stop the Japanese advance in Kweichow, Chiang's opinion was confirmed. How well Lieut. General Wedemeyer has succeeded in the diplomatic part of his job was indicated last week when Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek accepted an invitation to be Wedemeyer's guest at supper. Not since he became President of China has Chiang ever accepted such an invitation from a foreigner. But the Generalissimo has a good reason to be grateful. The new army forged by Wedemeyer is clearly superior to anything ever seen in China. Few can appreciate better than Chiang...
Lieut. General William Hood Simpson, immaculate, billiard-bald Ninth Army commander, was the most rumpled guest at a victory-celebration banquet in Germany: Soviet officers honored him with a triple toss ceilingward, the stouthearted Russian version of "three cheers...
After his mother's arrival, Harry Truman spent as little time as possible in his oval office, did much visiting with his mother, wife, sister, mother-in-law, and another family guest, Brother-in-Law Fred Wallace. For the first time as President he let a work day go by without calendar appointments...
...brother, the Regent: the King's health, impaired by German imprisonment, did not permit him to return at once to Belgium; would Prince Charles continue to act as regent? Leopold was able to deliver the letter in person since Prince Charles stayed on as a house guest...