Word: host
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eaker works with relentless energy from 8 o'clock each morning until late at night. At his residence, a modern house in suburban surroundings with tennis court and a golf course near by, he entertains all kinds of people at large and frequent parties. Eaker is a thoughtful host who not infrequently will pay more attention to a. U.S. lieutenant awed by the gold braid of air marshals than to the air marshals themselves...
When Canada's official guests, the Winston Churchills, detrained at Quebec, Prime Minister and Official Host William Lyon Mackenzie King greeted them. Next day, just before the Anglo-Canadian conference, Winston Churchill good-naturedly fussed over posing for cameramen. On his right hand he put smiling Mackenzie King. Around that centerpiece he clustered the Canadian Cabinet War Committee. He said: "They want me to shake hands with a Minister," then reached out to grasp the hand of Air Minister C. G. Power...
...historic Chateau Frontenac, Prime Ministers Churchill and King drove to the moated, ivy-draped Citadel for lunch. Later they called socially on leaders of the Quebec provincial government. Astute Winston Churchill did not neglect to speak French in the company of French Canadians. Then he parted briefly from his host for sight-seeing at Niagara, where he shopped for scenic postcards and remarked: "I've never seen the water look so green...
...role as military vicar for the armed forces of the United States, Archbishop Francis J. Spellman of New York, played host to the Catholic chaplains of the Army Chaplains' School here at a dinner meeting Wednesday night in the Copley Plaza Hotel. Heading the group of more than 100 chaplains who attended was Colonel William D. Cleary, commanding officer of the school...
Farm equipment and manpower shortages, gas rationing and a host of other wartime worries have put some brakes on the farmland boom market up to now. The real danger in the 1943 boomlet is that too many farmers might decide to take a flyer in land for speculation's sake and not for the land's produce. Against that psychology, if & when it arrives, the U.S. farmer's best weapon will be a long memory...