Word: host
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...religious, didactic play, in verse. Yet it has the character of a psychological study, of drawing-room comedy, of domestic drama. It begins significantly with a cocktail party, emblem of all that is frivolous, ephemeral and heterogeneous in modern life. Characteristically, one guest is a stranger even to the host. The hostess is absent-called, her husband explains, to the sickbed of an aunt...
...visiting. He chatted with Missouri's Governor Forrest Smith and entertained a group of other political friends with a chile-con-carne feast in the hotel penthouse. That evening he got into a tuxedo and escorted Mrs. Truman and Margaret to dinner and an evening reception. The host: suave, bald Blevins Davis, 46, onetime Independence schoolteacher who became a theatrical producer, married aged Heiress Margaret Sawyer Hill (a daughter-in-law of Rail Tycoon James J. Hill) in 1946 and inherited her fortune when she died last year...
...dearly-but at a distance." Even more remote was his father, Lord Randolph Churchill, brilliant and erratic Chancellor of the Exchequer (1886), who died when Winston was 20. Lord Randolph thought that Winston was not bright enough to study law; one day after watching the boy play with his host of 1,500 toy soldiers, Lord Randolph decided Winston's career should be the army...