Word: host
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Allied Medical Conference was held last week in the semicircular lecture hall of the University of Algiers. French doctors played host. About 100 British and U.S. doctors and a few Russians attended. There was real, prewar Gallic bonhomie provided by French doctors from Algiers (e.g., Professor Edmond Benhamou of the University) and Tunis (e.g., Paul Durand, director of the Pasteur Institute), assisted by a U.S. military band and cocktail parties. Points from some of the papers...
Died. Horace Victor Myers, 68, retired Jamaica rum magnate (Myers); in Kingston, British West Indies. He played host to thousands of U.S. citizens on Kingston's famed "Sugar Wharf." Died. Senator Charles Linza McNary, 69, Senate Republican leader; after a brain operation; in Fort Lauderdale...
...noon, dapper, coal-black President-elect William Vacarat Shadrach Tubman took over from President Roosevelt's onetime host and guest, Edwin J. Barclay (TIME, June 7). Then the new President knelt to ask the blessing of God upon his people. His lazy drawl poured out over the multitude, reminding all that Liberia had been founded under God and on Christian principles...
Middlebury will meet the Harvard Debating Council today at 3 o'clock in the Lowell House Junior Common room for a battle of words. Thursday at 8 o'clock the Council will play host again, this time to Haverford...
...host of dignitaries, a greater host of firemen and police, turned up for the new dress rehearsal. On one side of the curtain was a tense cast, on the other a tense audience. Suddenly the director flung out on the stage, spluttered that there would be no performance. Ording had had the last laugh on The Last Cry-he too had disappeared. He and his wife trudged through knee-deep snow for three hours with a howling six-week-old baby, reached Sweden and safety...