Word: guestly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...former Under Secretary was the guest yesterday of the University Press at a tea given at the Faculty Club, attended by prominent faculty members and Snydics of the Press. His visit was occasioned by the forthcoming publication of the first of a series of 23 volumes on the foreign relations of the United States with the leading countries of the world, to be written by members of the Harvard faculty and other authorities, and edited by Welles...
Lady Doverdale, a guest at the Pierre, moved to another hotel. Miss Wiborg went into seclusion at the St. Regis...
...from Moscow. Then Mr. Stettinius took him over to meet President Truman for the first time. As always, Molotov had to speak through an interpreter. When Stettinius and Molotov emerged, they were not smiling. From the President down, Mr. Molotov's U.S. hosts were prepared to look their guest in the eye, be tougher with him than they had ever been before. So were the British. It was, they had discovered, the best way to make Mr. Molotov look them...
...Roosevelt, as guest of honor, arrived at the Sulgrave Club tea for the benefit of Washington's children's clinics "with a very light heart." She had heard from Warm Springs that the President had eaten a good breakfast and was feeling fine. The anxiety which she had borne so long was eased a little that afternoon...
William Lyon Phelps. Learning of Santayana's taste for "contemplating athletic contests," Professor Phelps invited him to be his house guest during Harvard-Yale games. "Phelps was irresistible. His every word was a cocktail, or at least a temperance drink. He made you love everything. Even if you were not naturally genial, you found you were his friend, almost his intimate friend, without having in the least expected it." At Yale, Santayana found that enthusiasm was cultivated as Phelps cultivated it, indiscriminately, but he found Yale "a most living, organic, distinctive, fortunate place...