Word: guestly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...burn with a hard gemlike flame, ran Londes-borough Lodge with an iron hand. Her brother, Lord Raincliffe, who had a passion for circus clowns and fire engines, often came to stay, locked himself in his room for hours every day, conducting imaginary orchestras. A more humdrum guest was Florence Sitwell, who ran a "home for fallen women," held "quiet Sunday afternoons in the garden" for local barmaids...
...Recently, at a dinner in honor of a Croatian delegation, a guest paid no attention to the ban on total-war talk and started telling of the frightful consequences of the [Allied] bombing attacks. Icy silence fell upon the company. Hitler stopped his meal and indicated that he wanted to leave the table. But at the last moment an outburst was avoided, and the dinner went on its normal course again...
Winston Frederick Churchill Guest, 37, famed U.S. poloist, second cousin of Winston Churchill, joined the Marines. Said he, polo will be forgotten after the war's end. "The world is changing and serious things must be considered...
Meadow Larks. At Long Island's Meadow Brook Club, Mrs. Hitchcock trained young poloists most of her adult life. When Tommy was ten she organized the Meadow Larks. Among them: F. Skiddy von Stade Jr., Raymond and Winston Guest, Mike Phipps, Douglas Burden, Pete Bostwick, Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney. Lean, vigorous, hard-riding Mrs. Hitchcock broke her ankle in a riding accident when she was 61, broke an arm the next year, had her last fall at 68 when her horse balked at a stiff hurdle, threw her, broke her neck...
...Unless there is a definite assurance that you do not attack the United Nations or the politics of the United States as embodied in the Atlantic Charter and the Teheran agreement we feel we cannot have you as a guest," said the Congress is cancelling the historian's debate which was scheduled for last Saturday in Hollywood, California...