Word: host
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Played host, as Chief Good Neighbor, at a State banquet for overnight guest General Higinio Morinigo, President of Paraguay...
Coney Island (20th Century-Fox). The Technicolor cameras of this picture will turn many a spectator green with envy. They have been allowed a prolonged fondling of Betty Grable. Behind and around her moves a recreation of vintage-1905 sporting life with a noisy host of roisterers, pitchmen, barflies, and by-no-means-innocent bystanders. Miss Grable's tunes, dances, and virtually unprintable person will take full care of the general public. Film epicures will also be ravished by unoriginal but wonderful color-camera work on the gaudy, splendidly researched subject of oldtime Coney-Island...
...pigsticker itself. Boldest statement came from the British, who repudiated export or production quotas, and advocated price policies "which balance supply & demand, and allow a steady rate of expansion to the most efficient producers." When in Rome. Fact was that the conference was hamstrung. The U.S. was its host, but the U.S. has also been one of the worst offenders in the matter of trying to boost agricultural prices through artificial restrictions...
...reporters folded up and went away. Glamor peeled off, the big house on R Street looked like an old coat of paint. The tantalizing dinners, the high-blown conversation turned as sour and dull as their host's description of them. James Porter Monroe was nothing but dull proof once again that anyone with a fast line, some stationery, a telephone, an expense account, can fool Washington. He did not know his way around; he had no influence. Washington bigwigs went to his house because they are always going to somebody's house. Washington reporters knew all this...
...create a new Europe. We are no more 'realistic' than that." But readers who could remember back before Hitler, before the Depression, recognized that much of FORTUNE'S brave new Europe was in a high old tradition, had been dreamed again & again by Europeans themselves. A host of great Europeans, from Kant to Ortega y Gasset, had agreed that in unity lay the only European future that made sense. In 1929, the high noon of France's hegemony on the continent, the great Aristide Briand sent a memorandum to all European governments proposing steps toward...