Word: host
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Green is host to the tourney, which will be held on December...
...Played host to Canada's Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent (see THE HEMISPHERE...
...begins about 5 o'clock, in the solarium on the White House roof, is interrupted for a snack or buffet supper, then may continue down in Ike's second-floor study until 10 or 10:30. Guests arriving for a bridge date are likely to find the host waiting for them at the card table, impatiently riffling the decks...
...danced with the Duke of Clarence, who trod excruciatingly on my satin-slippered toes." Visiting a great Irish country house a few months later, she saw Irish peasants being evicted, and their stone & thatch cottages being demolished by battering rams. "These people must be taught a lesson," said her host. "That damned Land League is ruining the country." When she asked her father about it, he said: "The people have a right to the land." Later, in France, someone asked her: "Why don't you free Ireland as Joan of Arc freed France?" It was like a mandate...
...read moppets know, the smallest and bravest of the twelve little girls was Madeline. Ludwig Bemelmans' 1939 picture-and-verse classic told how Madeline came triumphantly through one of the most delightful appendectomies in literature. It also made his heroine's name a household word with a host of youngsters and their elders, who, having to read the thing aloud night after night, found grown-up delight in Bemelmans' warmly colored fantasies of Paris...