Word: host
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this left a host of puzzling questions. So did inspection of the rifle, and of an ax used to break open containers of oil. Fingerprints on both were hopelessly smudged. If Adamic had committed suicide, why had he felt it necessary to go to the trouble of burning his house and garage and preparing to burn his barn? Why had he left no note? And how could he have shot himself, then returned the rifle to his lap? But if he had been murdered by someone who set the fires to destroy evidence, why hadn't he resisted while...
...would like to be gregarious but does not have the knack for it. He used to go to small cocktail parties given by an old American friend, but found that the other guests would freeze up in his presence and stand around silently. Finally he said to his host: "I'm not coming any more because I am a wet blanket...
After listening to the two women and a host of minor witnesses, the jury found Remington guilty; he was fined $2,000 and sentenced to five years in prison. Last week, however, the three-man U.S. Court of Appeals unanimously reversed the conviction. In their opinion, New York Federal Judge Gregory F. Noonan had been "vague and indefinite" in charging the jury as to that wildly baffling point: what constitutes proof of membership in the Communist Party. The court ruled that he had also erred in denying Remington minutes of his own grand jury testimony and that U.S. Attorney Irving...
...Three drinks later the prospective host says, 'I'll get hold of Boodie and Mops and Winkles and Poopie, and you see if you can snaffle Cookie and Flip.' (The English go in for repulsive nicknames like this. It seems to have resulted from parents naming all their children Nigel and Diana, which, God knows, is reason enough.) Ten minutes later, the entire group is clustered around the bar gloomily tossing down whiskies and longing for the good old prewar days when bars stayed open till midnight...
...When the barkeeper announces, 'Time, please,' the host has one more drink and falls on his face. The party is thereupon postponed till the following night, and you go home too loaded to care whether the wallpaper stares back...