Word: host
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been in Baltimore for a winter and having become more humanised and less adolescent and less lonesome went to Radcliffe." Two years later, Josephine Sherwood (The Solid Gold Cadillac) Hull followed; then came Helen Keller, '04, Novelists Rachel Field, '18, and Helen Howe, '27, and a host of scholars and scientists. But to all these brilliant entrances and exits, Harvard itself chose to pretend indifference...
...Host of Gadgets. To the patient himself, the most conspicuous features of the ultramodern hospital are conveniences and creature comforts. First comes privacy: there are single and double rooms, and four-bed wards-nothing bigger. Every room is air-and sound-conditioned. Each has a two-way intercom system connecting with the nearest nurses' station, to save time, trouble, steps and tempers. Instead of hospital buff, most rooms are decorated with restful greys or greens, punctuated with cheery areas of brighter color. Pictures are changed often, but when the patient can stand the sight of one no longer...
Anderson Hospital has a host of gadgets, e.g., dumbwaiters to carry equipment and supplies from floor to floor and pneumatic tubes big enough so that they can carry medical records, medicines and small instruments. Food is served from a central kitchen, put in individual meal packs and delivered from a heated wagon...
Flutterings & Squeals. Even the actors had a bad time of it last week. Milton Berle, Red Buttons and Joan Blondell were all rushed to bed suffering variously from overwork, strep throats and virus infections. CBS Newsman Ed Murrow, scheduled to appear as host on NBC's Producers' Showcase in honor of the Overseas Press Club, announced that he couldn't make it because of "contractual conflict," a phrase that the industry read to mean CBS displeasure...
Rory Calhoun is a killer wanted in Utah. Stephen McNally is a deputy sheriff who is bringing him in. Lost in the California hills, they stop at Brian Aherne's sheep farm. Brian is away, but Jean Simmons, his daughter, fills the office of host -and her blue jeans, too-very nicely 'Father taught at Oxford," she informs her guests. Rory asks politely: "That's the biggest isn't it?" "The world sickened m, Jean goes on, "and he [came out ] find peace and isolation." Then she reads to them from father's works...