Word: host
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gentleman largely responsible for Virginia's new roads is another exemplar of the way politics can keep its breeding, and again Lady Astor's remark was a neat compliment. The road-builder was her host and distant relative, Governor Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia...
...President's son has been under watchful eyes in New Haven. He is living at the home of Professor Benjamin Wisner Bacon, 68, staunch Congregationalist, who has recently retired from the faculty of the Yale Divinity School. Host Bacon is an authority on the New Testament. He has written a good-sized shelf of books on the subject.* Big of frame, he used to play football and the violin, equally well, as a Yale undergraduate. John Coolidge has been invited to stay under the Bacon roof (No. 244 Edwards St.) as long as he desires. It is 20 minutes...
...four years he wandered through southern France, now poetizing for his connoisseur-host, Charles of Orleans, in the chateau at Blois, now sleeping in haystacks, once sentenced to death at Orleans. Always he pursued women, stole at a whim, strained at a bottomless tankard. And always he was freed from the dungeons (often by the services of the influential priest whom he called "my more than father"). Back in Paris, at the age of 31, he faced the gibbet of Montfaucon for a second time, was again liberated, sentenced to ten years' exile. With a farewell to his impoverished...
Receiving lines may receive, and advisers may advise, and Deans may be their own helpful, admonishing selves, but for the Freshman College dies not really begin until the football candidates are called out. This afternoon Coach Casey will meet his Freshman gridiron host at the Soldiers Field Looker Building. Over a hectic weekend Harvard has been giving the Freshmen plenty: now there is an opportunity for the Freshmen to give something to Harvard...
...Doorn this stock question is still supposed to be answered unctuously and favorably. But August von Mackensen, the hard, the merciless, the man who whipped Rumania down upon bloody knees, answered Host Hohenzollern thus: "There is not the slightest evidence that the people desire Your Majesty's return...