Word: guestly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After introductions, which included some comment or topical reference to each guest's home state, we were conducted into the dining room where two ladies were pouring tea at opposite ends of a candle-lit table. "I feel that these affairs will accomplish a great deal even if they only get the freshmen into the civilizing habit of tea-drinking," someone was saying, as I reached for some sandwiches, obeying a primitive urge...
...freshman at the piano was now rendering "Slaughter on 10th Avenue." My third tonic bottle was emptied, and I headed for supper, passing, on the way out, one guest with a Boy Scout badge in his lapel. Only one of the freshmen had been in uniform--khakis and blazer--and most wore matching coats and trousers. It won't be so in four years...
...Senators on a European fact-finding tour reached Luxembourg to find U.S. Minister Perle Mesta as good a hostess as ever. Mrs. Mesta greeted Oklahoma's Senator Elmer Thomas with a kiss, then whisked him and his colleagues through a giddy two-day whirl culminating in a 55 guest dinner party. To round out the welcome, an overexuberant Luxembourg band serenaded the Senators (four of them from the South) with a lusty performance of Marching through Georgia...
Paul Whiteman Revue (Sun. 7 p.m., ABC-TV). Guest: Walter Hampden...
...successful hand at reducing religious feeling to bathos ; his slushy novel, The Miracle of the Bells (TIME, Sept. 16, 1946), sold 750,000 copies. His doggerel Vision of Red O'Shea may not do as well, but it has a distinction of its own: not since Edgar Guest lit his Harbor Lights of Home and Robert Service thumped through Songs of a Sourdough has a versifier shown such loving absorption in platitude and meticulous attention to clich...