Word: host
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whaling crew were Soviet Russians and, as far as riotous behavior went, Wellington might as well have been host to a church convention. The Russians did their drinking in coffee and milk bars; they avoided waterfront dives, were polite and soft-spoken in trams and shops. The pursuit of women was out of bounds...
...striker and by threatening to jail any employer who closed shop. He marshaled 4,000 soldiers. His labor lieutenant, Eusebio Mujal, Hoffa-style boss of the 1,200,000-member Cuban Labor Federation, ordered workers to stay on their jobs or lose them for good. Playing the genial host to U.S. newsmen (see PRESS) at a party three days before the strike, Batista said, half in joke and half in earnest: "We'll soon see how hard it is to make this dictator fall...
...nature was perhaps best manifest in oral examinations. As one student commented, "Many a candidate felt relief, after being subjected to a host of merciless, polished questions, at Kittredge's taking over the exam with his mild kindliness and amazing ability to elicit information from exhausted minds that objected to thinking further." Once a frightened candidate for Honors in English said in reply to one of his questions, "I'm afraid I can't answer; I have not read all of Wordsworth." Kitteredge reassuringly disclosed, "Neither have I. I couldn't be hired to." He always helped the candidate...
...portion, cognac up to $2.25 a snifter. He wears custom-made suits from London and monogrammed shirts from Paris (though they do nothing for his built-in rumples). Asked his favorite color, Gunther beams: "Smoked salmon-Prunier's, of course, not Reuben's." Nor would Host Gunther dream of serving domestic champagne at his massive parties. For one gala, co-hosted at the Gun-thers' house by Claude Philippe of the Waldorf, liveried footmen carried scrolls to invite the 80 guests...
...host, Gunther likes to invite at least 75 people and mix such disparate guests as Foreign Affairs Editor Hamilton Fish Armstrong and Audrey Hepburn, Marlene Dietrich and the Duchess of Windsor. He dotes on introducing the famed to the famed in glowing detail, as if they inhabited far-distant planets. One occasion when Gunther skipped such identification was in presenting Paul Auriol to the Duke of Windsor, who murmured: "Don't I know something about your father?" The glacial reply: "Possibly. He's President of France." (The duke was repaid at the same party when the Adman-Philanthropist...