Word: host
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Judah was Dorothy Patterson of the National Cash Register family (Dayton, Ohio). The Judahs will have a month or so to get settled in Havana. Then will come the pan-American conference, at which the new ambassador will be, ex officio, a member of the U. S. delegation and host of his colleagues, the latter perhaps including President Coolidge...
...Broad Street Station, Philadelphia, throngs milled. The face that President Coolidge looked for was that of William Cameron Sproul (Sprole), onetime (1919-23) Governor of Pennsylvania. Mr. Sproul is president of Philadelphia's Union League Club. This evening he was the President's host...
Died. James Cox Brady, 45, able financier, lavish host, important Catholic; in Manhattan, after five days' illness, of pneumonia. His father, Anthony N. Brady, (died 1913) accumulated $80,000,000 by organizing public utilities and on the Stock Exchange; the son, with his brother Nicholas F., increased the family fortune. He supported many charities, chiefly Catholic; once he sold all his race horses and gave the proceeds away. For his benefactions Pope Pius XI made him a Knight Commander of the Order of St. Gregory and a private chamberlain of the Cape and Sword; last December King Vittorio Emanuele...
...nights there in U. S. cities that had no opera, made a name for the impresario who could give popular-priced performances and succeed. Last week the San Carlo Company began a two-weeks' engagement in Manhattan, not in the old Century Theatre that had been its former host but in a new theatre with GALLO blazed across the front. Critics attending the opening had kinder words for Impresario Gallo than for the mediocre performance of La Boheme. His theatre they found comfortable, wellappointed, small enough* and shrewdly designed to accommodate all types of theatrical and musical entertainment; rentable...
...There was a certain graciousness, a kindly attitude which one felt immediately upon coming into Norton's home," said Dean Briggs. "He was a charming host...