Word: host
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Conde Nast, 54, smart Manhattan host & publisher (Vanity Fair, Vogue, House & Garden) ; to Leslie Foster of Lake Forest, Ill., granddaughter of late Gov. George White Baxter of Tennessee; in Aiken, S. C. In 1923 Publisher Nast was divorced by Mrs. Clarisse Coudert Nast...
...Author. Synonym of biography in the new manner, Strachey takes his work far more seriously than the host of whippersnappers who have travestied his methods in the six years since Queen Victoria was published. Three years' solid work expended on that book resulted in what the author called "suffering from mental prostration"-horrible to consider what effect the present more brilliant volume will have...
...Jean Baptiste (76th Street and Lexington Avenue), where the Host is displayed night and day for perpetual adoration. A group of Roman Catholic laymen, some rich, some poor, called the Nocturnal Adoration Society, meets once a week to spend the night in prayer...
...glorious afternoon in the Bowl still extremely new. Dartmouth is in town and now and then gets scalped and the joy of the University still does not overstep too far the margins set by indifference. But fifty years of opposition more than half of them alternately as host and as guest, have set a unique seal on Harvard's meetings with Yale...
...their lives. They had tried to paint what they perceived as current realities. Often they were frustrated, tortured in the patient attempts to convey the actualities of their vision. But they believed in an art stimulated by the living, not the dead. For this they were excoriated by a host of pompous academicians, who applauded apes of the classical tradition...