Word: host
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Finally Princess Ileana attended with her mother a banquet which began at noon and lasted until high tea time. The host who tendered this Lucullan feast was His Highness, Jagatjit Singh Bahadur, Maharaja of Kapurthala, famed pearl fancier...
...Host of Hosts. In Chicago Harry C. Moirs threw open the doors of his new ten-room bungalow atop the Hotel Morrison, welcomed in for its dedication 300 members of the American Hotelmen's Association who were in Chicago for a three-day convention. Later they re-elected Thomas D. Green (Woodward Hotel, Manhattan) president; chose Fred Bering (Hotel Sherman, Chicago) secretary, Samuel E. Leeds (Atlantic City) treasurer...
...toasts" incessantly at even completely informal meals. Swedish, and indeed Scandinavian etiquette demands that when three or more people are at table no one of them shall drink so much as a sip of beer, wine or spirits except in pledging a toast. At a formal Swedish dinner the host rises, catches the eye of a guest who also rises, cries "Your health!" and they drink. The host must repeat this ritual at least once with every guest, and each guest must reply in kind to the host and hostess, and may similarly toast other guests. Naturally young girls...
...kept on using quiet expletives, more out of decency, it seemed, than real surprise. Captain MacMillan, with the good ship Bowdoin safe in winter anchorage, had brought him down to show him civilization, and Abie Bromfield, "Eskimo" (whose parents were English) felt a certain responsibility to his host. They had talked together by arctic firesides and Captain MacMillan had told him of these big houses, and of sleds that ran around on wheels without any dogs, and of yellow stars made put of glass and stuck like icicles in every corner; the Captain's descriptions, indeed, had been enthusiastic...
...year. The antics of elephantine Frank Mclntyre and dapper Charles Ruggles as the incompatible parties to the poker contract are enough to carry any show to success, even without the added help of droll comedienne Luella Gear, acrobatic Edwin Michaels, super-dynamic Gaile Beverly, beauteous Mary Lawlor, and a host of others. Willy Pogany made the settings...