Word: host
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...will have more than 13,000,000 new veterans, and all except aliens and those dishonorably discharged will be entitled to burial in military cemeteries-along with their wives, widows, minor children and unmarried daughters. To provide grave-space for the host of warriors and warriors' kin that may be buried in military cemeteries in the years to come. Congress last week hunted earnestly throughout the country for new burial grounds...
Resuming activity after a layoff of several weeks, the Harvard Debate Council will play host tomorrow evening to an invading team from the United States Military Academy at West Point. In a debate starting at 7:15 o'clock, the cadets will defend the negative position in the question: "Resolved, That there be compulsory federal arbitration of labor disputes, voluntary agreements having failed and constitutionality conceded...
Sherman Billingsley, suave, sleepy-eyed host of Manhattan's Stork Club, accepted congratulations from cafe society as the author of a 6,000-word history of nightclubs, to be printed in the next edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica-which is noticing nightclubs for the first time in 177 years of publication. Pocketing his $120 (the scholar's rate of 2? a word) Author Billingsley lost no time about getting in a professional plug: "Nightclubs are here to stay. Curfews and taxes can't kill them . . . even the Britannica has come to realize...
...cacophony of extreme modernism blew loud in Manhattan's Whitney Museum, which was host last week to "European Artists in America," a show limited to work by 39 Continental refugees. The display ranged all the way from swooning sensuality (Nude Reclining, an oil by Moise Kisling) to attenuated, nihilistic preciosity (Boîte-en-Valise, an "object" by Marcel Duchamp). Between these bypaths lay a two-lane highway of abstraction and surrealism. Outstanding was 44-year-old French Surrealist Yves Tanguy's Un Lieu Oblique (An Oblique Place), a meticulous composition suggesting a segment of interstellar space strewn...
...nights. The first night, a sort of benefit running to diamonds rather than dog tags, was the biggest social event in Paris since the liberation. In a whirl of color, General Joseph-Pierre Koenig, the British Ambassador and Lady Diana Duff Cooper, Prince Achille Murat. Lucien Lelong and a host of other celebrities drank champagne at $30 a bottle, netted the Canteen almost...