Word: guestly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jammed him into closets to hide him from their rivals. "I need," said proud Joseph van der Straeten, home at last in Knocke, "no man's money, but I was glad to have the Express's. Now I have one of their reporters here as my guest. He will stay as long as he wants. There is nothing like a sudden descent from a balloon to warm up international understanding...
...from El Ferrol, before the Americans left. Disgruntled because his British masters had put him aboard an ordinary passenger steamer, the Highland Brigade, the Hashimite sovereign had his pride restored when Host Franco stopped the British steamer in the harbor and provided a Spanish naval launch for his Arab guest to come ashore in regal style...
Franco was still beaming next day as he gave Abdullah a spectacular public embrace. Madrid declared a national holiday the better to welcome the royal guest. One peevish cobbler grumbled: "Haven't we enough saints' days which keep us from working without a Moorish king thrown in as well...
...Guest: new K.K.K. head, Lycurgus Spinks...
Almost as soon as Guest Conductor Antal Dorati signaled for the first crashing ta-ta-ta-dah (from Beethoven's Symphony No. 5), then some muted lullaby music, the musicians began to look like small boys getting into a new game that was going to be fun. Most of the instruments got their chance to shine. Boomed the narrator, Nelson Olmsted: "First I invented the flute [deep blue solo]. Next, the oboe [etc.] . . . But that wasn't all I needed. I had to have -Sharps and flats and pizzicato, Molto Lento and staccato, Treble clef, ritard, repeat, Allegro...