Word: host
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge used to rise and bid his callers good-night before the clock had ceased chiming 10 p. m. Last week President Hoover, host to four New York Republican leaders, kept them smoking and talking in the study until 11.10 p. m., when they went away in sweet harmony...
...conflict between the ancient tribal religion and the modern manners being adopted is often ludicrous. The African negro has no deity, but, in its place, a host of superstitions. These assume every possible form and apply to every thing. For instance, the wife of the chief is supposed to spit on the gun to insure success in the hunt. When I once failed to bag my game it was suggested that one of the women had failed to spit, and should be imprisoned! In another case the same man who drives a Ford in the afternoon may feel secure from...
...host, Albert Davis Lasker, onetime (1921-23) chairman of the U. S. Shipping Board, took him to the Jockey Club races. As everyone knows, Indian-blooded Mr. Curtis used to be a jockey himself. He has an eye for fast horses the way some men have an eye for quick stocks. After the heat of the day it was cooling to return to Mr. Lasker's low, rambling white stucco villa (with rose tile roof) and listen to the Atlantic tapping on the sandy front lawn. Next door, like a Miamese twin, was the house of John D. Hertz...
...French-supported Florentine republic, extant since 1494, fell before the Spanish-supported Medici. Giuliano acquired the title of Gonfaloniere of the Papal Forces. He was the ruler of the so-called republic. He played host at gala fetes and mingled with men of genius. But he was still a mediocre Medici, displaying no creative gifts, governmental or artistic. He died in 1516, when only...
...different statisticians for the same publication, flatly contradict one another's figures in a way that puzzles the man who buys space. And so, since 1923, Editor & Publisher, journalism's trade weekly, has annually sought to furnish the most nearly accurate advertising lineage figures for a host of U. S. and Canadian newspapers, and these figures are always eagerly awaited...