Word: host
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sacred are the relations of host and guest. Recently a trinity of hosts-the City of New York, its Mayor and President Coolidge-entertained Prince Ludovico Spada Varalli Potenziani, the tall, cadaverous Governor of Rome. Last week Guest Potenziani returned to Italy and on landing at Naples spoke as follows of his hosts...
...grandfather, Benjamin Douglass, founded R. G. Dun & Co., business statisticians, credit raters. *His old friends of Hutchison, Kan., know him as a ready host and help when needed. Their children attend each other's weddings; the boys get jobs in Chrysler's factories-at Detroit, Dayton, Ohio, Newcastle, Ind. Mr. Chrysler has paid for an addition to the Kansas Wesleyan University at Salina, Kan. In one Kansas city he built five churches...
...Scotland. Mrs. Winston Churchill, with three Anglo-Indian ladies, Painter Sir John Lavery with his lady, Margot Asquith, an enormous smile twitching under her hawk nose, Premier Baldwin, in a topper, Ishbel Macdonald with her father, a crowd of college men wearing golf clothes to show their nonchalance, a host of pretty people who bowed to other people who did not know them, went up the stairs and in the door...
...Soldiers Field the baseball team will play host to an old rival who has only recently renewed dual athletic relations with Harvard. Last winter the track team opened the series of contests which stretches through the next three years when it invaded Ann Arbor to take a victory from the Wolverines in the last race of an indoor meet. Backed by last year's record and a string of eight straight victories over college teams this spring, the University nine has yet to meet a foe of unquestionably equal rank. Michigan comes east with the highest sport credentials...
...first year of the interscholastic games, only three schools competed. The events were run off at Southborough, St. Mark's Schol being the meet host. Among the events listed in this meet were the tug-of-war, throwing the baseball, and the one mile walk. The winner of the 100-yard dash tore down the cinders to break the tape in 10 4-5 seconds, only 4-5 of a second more than the present interscholastic record...