Word: guests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been in New Orleans during Mardi Gras, and if you have, you know that the whole town carries on on Canal Street as much as could have been carried on in any of the several Little Theatre parties that I might have visited, and most particularly one as the guest of the President of the New Orleans Association of Commerce. You pictured everything under the sun from these libelous and scandalous persecutors, but you did not take any note whatever that it was my administration which had aroused the old time element, because: 1) We began to give school books...
Like the Norton Chair, the Kuno Francke Professorship will have, for a few years at least, guest professors as annual incumbents. It is the desire of the donors, however, that a man will be finally secured to combine the knowledge of the various branches of Tentonic Cultures. Instead of presenting merely one aspect of the subject, a permanent recipent of the Kuno Francke Professorship would have to be able to give students the benefit of understanding of German history. German art, and German literature. It was the unusual ability of Professor Francke to so correlate the whole of German culture...
...plume of an authoress who conceals her real name. She is a robust, middle-aged London woman, long and strong of face, wife of an able scientist. Born in Australia, trained in Leipzig for the career of concert pianist, she published in 1908 a musical novel called Maurice Guest. Admired by discerning critics, this novel has enjoyed quiet prestige for 20 years-from time to time a new edition is printed. In 1911 she planned a trilogy. The Fortunes of Richard Mahony, The Way Home, were commercial failures. Ultima Thule is the completing volume. Written in a rich, loamy, colloquial...
...John Hay ("Jock") Whitney and Winston Guest of Long Island with Eric Pedley and Elmer J. Boeseka Jr. of California prevented the college-boy Old Aikens, green-shirted national junior champions (TIME, Aug. 5), from becoming the year's outstanding U. S. polo team. by galloping through them, 18 goals to 8, in the final of the Waterbury Cup matches at Meadow Brook. Both teams were put out early in the open championship, won last fortnight by Irish Captain C. T. I. Roark's four...
Mayor Gustav Boess, of Berlin, Frau Boess and their party, arrived in Manhattan, handshook Mayor James John Walker, Berlin's guest two years ago. Mayor Boess at once asked to be shown Coney Island (fun park...