Word: host
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sense all his four efforts came to naught. But he had established intimate relations with the statesmen of Europe?Grey, Balfour, Lloyd George, Cambon, Briand, Zimmermann, a host of others that were invaluable to President Wilson in conducting his foreign policy...
...Sick to death of his fellowmen, he grasps at the ideal of the superman, whom no laws or conventions can touch, and seeks to raise himself to this height. The villagers are raw material for the exploitation of his new-found ideal. He lusts for the wife of his host; he plays upon the superstitions of the old people; he takes life and death into his own hands; and finally creates of the frowning face on the mountain a singing god head...
...Butlers, good men, indeed but never saints. For as has been recently stated not far from Harvard Yard--to be a saint one must have been a sinner. Yet all of this does not prevent the colonel from suffering the moral malignments of his superiors. The honored rights of host and guest bow to the higher standards of a tatterdemalion morality...
Wars. M. Zaharoff, who proceeded to have himself naturalized a Frenchman, proceeded also to promote the interests of Mars throughout Europe and South America with such success that a host of nicknames were coined for him: "Sleeping Partner of War," "Mystery Man of Europe" and "Croupier for the International Roulette Wheel...
...parties of 14 each will be arranged in the University, one of which will be from the College and the other from the Law School. In each country to be visited the official student organization will be host and student guides will travel with each party during its stay in the country...