Word: host
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meeting's lavish host was the British Labor Party, which set up an un-austere dinner of hors d'oeuvres, soup, chicken, potatoes, peas, cabbage and a choice of three sweets to be washed down with sound, unimaginative red Saint-Julien, a white Bordeaux and liqueur. (Because Oulton Hall is not a licensed house, the drinks had to be brought all the way from London...
Seeking its fifth win in 11 starts, the Varsity baseball team will play host to Brown this afternoon at 3 o'clock on Soldiers Field. Joe Phelan is slated to do the pitching against a Brain squad that lost to the Crimson earlier this season by a 4 to 1 count...
Some children call it "the dead zoo." Last week kids-and adults-saw a host of disembodied faces keeping company with its stuffed animals. In a dark hall of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History, beneath the mottled, 76-ft. belly of a sulphur-bottom whale, the Museum had assembled and spotlighted some 200 masks from all over the world...
With 61 years of virtually unbroken success, the old hotel has played host to many distinguished persons, including Presidents Grant, Garfield, and Arthur. Among the huge parties given there was the 70th birthday celebration of the poet Whittier...
Archbishop Urban John Vehr of Denver, ceremonially draped with a pallium* brought from Rome by Samuel Alphonsus Cardinal Stritch, managed to get through the ceremony with a nose that had been through a chilling experience. Playing host to visiting bishops the night before, the Archbishop had tripped, taken a nose dive. Physicians insisted on keeping the archiepiscopal neb in an ice pack all night...