Word: guests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recent luncheon guest at the Black Hills White House related** the following conversation...
...Coolidge," said the guest, "you must get a great many important despatches from Washington out here. How do they come?by air mail...
...Author is in prison. One dawn last summer, police found him in a daze in front of his home at Mansfield, Conn., with a discharged shotgun in his hands. Within lay one Wilfred Peter Irwin, shot in the back, dying. Both men had been drinking for days. Before the guest died he swore his host was innocent, the shooting an accident. But Leonard Cline must stand trial for murder. Until the plot of that true story is unraveled next month before a grand jury, one of the most promising careers in U. S. literature is in abeyance. Factitious folk have...
...great to be an Optimist. I travel all over America and in every city where there is an Optimist club I am made a guest of honor. I never get unpacked in my hotel until the telephone begins to ring and the invitations come pouring in. Am I hungry? Am I tired? Am I thirsty? Am I in need of anything? Do I want an automobile? Will I come to a banquet? Will I take a drive about the city? Every Optimist is ready and eager to serve the stranger in a strange city."?George O. Griffin...
...Raucat places the reader behind each of his characters in turn. The result is a set of complete reactions?everyone's viewpoint is defined. Mildly mocking, Author Raucat describes the festivities surrounding the arrival of the European at the pleasure resort. Says the stationmaster: "As a favor to my guest I offered to weigh him on the baggage scales. What a figure he made the arrow jump to! It exceeded the maximum weight authorized for a piece of passenger train baggage; we burst into cries of admiration. Next I weighed myself; and then in token of friendship we weighed ourselves...