Word: host
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there was no stopping Sickles. When Isabella moved her "court" to Paris, Minister-to-Madrid Sickles moved there too, played host at her salon to Gustav Flaubert, George Sand, Alfred de Musset, Gambetta and the French Monarchists. He decided that France, too, needed a king, and began to intrigue vigorously on behalf of his friend the Comte de Paris, whom he had met as a French observer in the Civil...
Aside from the stars, a host of minor characters make up for some of the film's chronic dreariness. Mrs. Noosbaum, "I'm tellink mine hosband . . ." is rivalled only by John Carradine, in a ghoulish carbon copy of Ephraim Tutt sniggering while hunched over an organ keyboard and by Sidney Toler, who doffs his perennial mustache but is still Charlie Chan...
Only one more match remains for the Crimson squad this term; on Saturday afternoon the racket-wielders will play host to an invading team from Dartmouth. This will be the first contest between the two colleges in any sport thus far this season...
Tragic though the situation appear for Radcliffe, many of the leading national figures will be hanging out the window of the maze of buildings surrounding the 'Cliffe quadrangle as a host of female take the field to meet their inevitable doom at the hands of Crime, the 'Pox Killer
...essential," or "the blasted superficiality and bogus pretence of education." There were also the medico from a High land regiment with his Cornish remedy for colds ("Hang a boot over foot of bed, go to bed, drink whiskey till you see two boots, go to sleep"), and the genial host, Jack Barrett, full of his customers' reminiscences : one, asked if he never broke his marriage vows, answered, "I ain't never exactly broke 'em, but I've sure give 'em a hell of a twist sometimes." Talk at the Anchor ranged from speculation...