Word: host
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Clement Attlee played the firm but friendly host to Holland's Premier Willem Schermerhorn. Guests included British Minister of State Philip Noel-Baker, who had publicly demanded that Indonesians and Dutch get together; Netherlands Minister for Overseas Territories J. H. A. Logemann, who had publicly barred a return of "the extinct past" to the East Indies; Old Etonian Sir Nevile Bland, who as Ambassador to The Hague has the delicate job of relaying British views on how the Dutch should run their empire; Java-born Dr. Hubertus J. Van Mook, the Acting Governor General, fresh from the rebellious East...
Winston I looked forward to a holiday in the U.S. His physician had urged "a month or more in a warm climate and . . . complete rest." He would soak up sunlight, brandy and cigar smoke at the Miami home of Canadian Papermaker Frank W. Clarke, his Laurentian camp host after the 1943 meeting with Franklin Roosevelt...
...suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God, and saying...
...self-made man who had risen from a small clerkship to the presidency of the Reichsbank, a clubman of quiet but expensive style, he held aloof from riffraff like Göring-whom, he said, he would now gladly kill with his own hands. The record read: Schacht was host at a special meeting of German industrialists called to raise money for the Nazi Party before the March 1933 elections. If Hitler won, Göring had assured him amiably, it would be the last election in Germany. (Göring grinned and nodded with pleasure at the recollection, Schacht...
...birds, builder of the world's finest collection (750,000 specimens); in Manhattan. The most influential ornithologist since the great John James Audubon, gentle, ec centric Dr. Chapman - who was a confirmed but surreptitious duck-shooter - -once paid bird-loving statesman Lord Grey his highest compliment: "A charming host . . . just like a bird...