Word: host
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the last week, the police decided that something really must be done. Instead of the usual printed card, the host himself called, M. Daudet was adamant; once and for all time, he did not intend to accept Monsieur Le Prefect's invitation. M. Le Prefect hinteu vaguely at arrest, bowed and retired. Now French policemen don't often speak of such things. M. Daudet was warned, and placed bob wire about his building, bolted doors and windows, and waited, first hinting to his friends and the police that he would die before he stooped to the Prefect's compulsory...
...shining. King George, Queen Mary and Edward of Wales sat in a box. Captain Charles Augustus Lindbergh and his host, Lord Lonsdale, sat in another. A man with a megaphone at a crossroad was announcing the second coming of the Lord and flaying gambling. Approximately every fifth person in Great Britain was gambling. A dentist's assistant in Capetown, South Africa, had a valuable slip of paper in his pocket. Some 300,000 people were watching 23 horses. It was Derby Day at Epsom Downs, where hills scallop the landscape and a dimple among them makes a natural bowl...
Journalism in Washington is not as good a training school for politics as the layman might think. It seems obvious to the casual observer that in Washington are concentrated not only the legislative and executive branches of the national government but a host of independent commissions making daily decisions affecting the plain citizen in countless ways--all of which seem to afford a political laboratory not to be excelled. Then, the casual observer will say, there are the embassies and the light which they throw on affairs throughout the world...
...Minnesota Rotarians-were there with booklets printed in colors to advertise Minneapolis as "host city" for 1928. Their most trusted member guarded "a beautiful, illuminated invitation for presentation to the convention...
...startling specimen was a transparent bell-shaped jellyfish, about a foot in diameter, which propels itself by opening and closing like an umbrella. This creature's interior is a dining room, playground and protectorate for as many as 300 little silvery fish. Unharmed by the host's poisonous tenacles and living on its killings, the parasite's swim in and out of its mouth at will...