Word: host
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...station. He is a friend and business associate of Richardson, and like him, a collector of Western art. Whenever he buys a Remington, he sends another to Richardson, with the bill. A combination John D. Rockefeller and Grover Whalen to Fort Worth, he is an insistent and generous host...
...tackled the smörgåsbord, Cokes and aquavit, sang folk songs around the grand piano in the salon, watched documentary movies about New York, baseball and Hawaii. It was 2 a.m. when the party broke up. As the happy guests filed out, each received from hostess and host a pound of American-brand coffee, a rationed and prized rarity in Denmark...
Healy evoked for posterity a shadowy host of 19th Century greats. His portraits, reproduced in-textbooks across the land, had given successive generations of U.S. schoolchildren a notion of what Healy's sitters looked like, but not, necessarily, of what they were like...
...14th Century rule designed "to further the honest pursuit of studies and to restrain the arrogance of those in whom the energies of their stomachs exceed those of their minds." Since 1355, when carousing Oxonians at the Swyndle-stock Tavern precipitated a three-day riot by hitting their host on the head with a beer tankard, it had been as scrupulously enforced as it had been ingeniously flouted. But by last week, some of the fun had gone out of Oxford's drinking. Prompted by the demands of a changing world and an older student body ("How could...
...Like It (by William Shakespeare; produced by the Theatre Guild) poses the same problem as country life for city folks: how to get the charm without the boredom. A host of modern inventions have helped turn the trick with rural life, but few productions have found the answer for As You Like It. It remains stubbornly bucolic, discursive and dawdling, with the poetry no real match for the plot...