Word: host
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Other Hollywood divorce cases in a quiet week: Linda Darnell (grounds: mental cruelty), Leslie ("The Saint") Charteris (grounds: cruelty) and a host of minor characters...
Cuernavaca, Mexico, best known as a place for eating, dancing and laughter, last week played host to a serious conference: a troop of eminent physicians, mostly from the U.S., gathered for the first International Symposium on Steroid Hormones. Attending the conference by proxy were millions of the desperately ill. The mysterious steroid hormones, all built neatly around the same four-ringed nucleus, offer promise of understanding a long list of chronic diseases...
...Arcadia, Calif., favored Your Host, to Moonrush (and the rest of the field) in the $50,000 San Pasqual Handicap, when Your Host piled into another horse, fell, broke four small bones in his right front leg, apparently ended his racing career...
...facts, and the ultimate result is that the weight of the facts, whether they are understood or not, gets a passing grade. To take advantage of this, the man who knows little or nothing and therefore has lots of spare time during the exam, embroiders his margins with a host of irrelegant facts. There then exists the outside chance that the grader will mark it like a Radcliffe paper, on the sheer weight of the facts included...
...Lust-Putty." Hero Bill Gaunt, a Wylie-minded philosopher, suffers much as his fellow men do when, without warning or explanation, all wives and daughters vanish from the face of the earth. A host of domestic chores such as he has never suspected fall into his philosophical lap; his shiny Miami home becomes a filthy, desolate, loveless stew, and Gaunt himself an unkempt, ragged relict in a life that has lost its meaning...