Word: host
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Barricaded from assault by means of membership in the League and negotiation outside of it, secured by a host of expressions of political and industrial amity, Belgium seems to have reconstructed what M. Vandevelde calls "her shattered international status". Yet the very multiplicity of guarantees reveals that post-war diplomacy in Europe is very much a heritage from prewar days; and suggests that this is likely to be so until the League of Nations, the World Court, and the Locarno treaties attain the prestige of a much longer life...
Married. Wolcott Blair, 31, Chicago host of Edward of Wales in 1924, to Mrs. Ellen Yuille Sturgis, in Manhattan...
...foreign to the true purposes of education. The seeker of grades is a technician of the first order. Machiavellian attention to insignificant detail, introduction of quotations purposely memorized and designed to convey the impression that the writer could quote with a similar facility on any given subject, and a host of other tricks;--the pursuit of grades is often conducted with an insincerity which accounts in no little measure for the disrepute in which they are held...
...course of the inquiry with anxious interest and I am hopeful that the task of my commissioners will be lightened by ungrudging and single-hearted effort on the part of all concerned to find a solution for the problems of this great and vital industry." In conclusion a host of minor internal affairs were touched upon. These included the Wembley Exposition, the housing situation, the unemployment problem...
...Walpose expected to go unscathed after thus brusquely throwing down the gauntlet, he reckoned without his host. The Antichrist of Baltimore snatched it up with zest, and in half as many words as his oppouent proceeded to score almost twice the number of points, of which the following is a fair sample: "You hint that I'd have acclaimed Arnold Bennett's novel "Riceyman Steps', if the author had been an American! I leave this insinuation to a candid world--and you to the mercy...