Word: host
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Saturday is the big day. The varsity and freshman wrestling teams open their seasons at MIT, the track team plays host to Northeastern and B.U., the swimming team opens here against the Alumni, and Bill Barclay's quintet plays at Navy...
Saturday is the big day. The varsity and freshman wrestling teams open their seasons at MIT, the track team plays host to Northeastern and B.U., the swimming team opens here against the Alumni and Bill Barelay's quintet plays at Navy...
...seriously, describe hotels and list trains for all college towns. Girls are warned against drinking too much ("No man likes a prude, but it's far worse to have a girl who laps up everything in sight"), and other forms of helplessness ("Don't depend on your host to look up trains"). They are also advised that the paint on Yale Bowl benches rubs off, and that "if you ever want to give a [West Point] plebe anything, bring him food, for he is always hungry...
...topflight admen who gathered last week at the annual eastern conference of the American Association of Advertising Agencies were not as cocky as usual. In Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel the worried talk was all of television. Griped one adman: "The host of mysticism built up around television has top management scared stiff...
...pirate's victim rose out of the scuppers to become the pirate's relentless pursuer. Aimed now directly at the juvenile market, boys' magazines arose for every class, their authors ranging from Talbot Baines Reed, G. A. Henty and P. G. Wodehouse to a lesser-known host of "clergymen, headmasters, baronets, officers . . . titled ladies...