Word: host
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...necessary to knit the local organizations into a great unit for the purposes of a national campaign. Many of the local units are strong, but they remain largely uncoordinated. The difficult task of altering this condition, therefore, rests largely on the candidate himself. He has been overtaken by a host of necessary conferences, of campaign appointments, of arrangements for raising adequate campaign funds. His duties are doubled. He has Herculean labor ahead...
...Harry A. Garfield, host of all present, introduced Yusuke Tsurumi, young Japanese Liberal: "There is every reason to evidence to every Japanese within our portals that the Congress of the United States sometimes makes mistakes...
...visit to the U. S. took place in the Spring and Summer of 1923. He came as the guest of Frank N. Doubleday, his publisher. He arrived very quietly, neither spoke nor lectured, spent the greater part of his few weeks in this country on Long Island at his host's estate. He got, however, a view of the Manhattan skyline from across the bay?a seaman's view, as much of a country as a seaman cares to look upon...
...royal host and hostess were affable, interested, loquacious in Buck- ingham Palace Gardens that afternoon. The New York Times, with seeming bad taste, headlined: "AMERICANS TAKE TEA IN KING'S BACK
...steamer Pemaquid made its way across the waters of Penobscot Bay and came to land. John William Davis disembarked. On the dock waiting for him was Charles Dana Gibson, his host. The creator of the Gibson Girl, the publisher of Life, was there despite his physician's orders. A recent illness had required him to guard his health closely, but friendship and hospitality had temporarily overruled the art of healing...