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...Norway. Their royal niece, Princess Astrid of Sweden had baked to crown the feast, a birthday cake for her fiance, Crown Prince Leopold of the Belgians, who had come to Stockholm earlier in the week with his parents King Albert and Queen Elizabeth of the Belgians. The host and hostess of this royal birthday party intime, which preceded the wedding of Astrid and Leopold last week, were the bride's parents: Prince Carl, Duke of Vastergötland, brother of King Gustaf V of Sweden; and his wife, Princess Ingeborg of Denmark, sister of both King Christian...
...proprietor of the Crown Inn at Oxford, where it was stated Shakspere always stopped when in that city. Du eto this, and the great dramatist's known or rumored admiration to the hostess, there sprang a scandalous story, attributing Davenant's paternity to Shakspere, a legend which Davenand himself encouraged, but which later criticism considers spurious...
...implication in her book Show Boat that he was a gambler, TIME stated erroneously that Miss Ferber was sued in 1922 by her "onetime Chicago Landlady" for allegedly libelous character drawing in the novel So Big (TIME, Sept. 13). The injured person was a onetime friend and hostess of Miss Ferber's; the suit was never brought, merely talked about, the lady fancying she saw herself in the married woman with whom the young hero fell in love...
...pledging a toast. At a formal Swedish dinner the host rises, catches the eye of a guest who also rises, cries "Your health!" and they drink. The host must repeat this ritual at least once with every guest, and each guest must reply in kind to the host and hostess, and may similarly toast other guests. Naturally young girls of no great capacity are expected merely to touch a glass to their lips in response to the 30 or 40 toasts which they are sure to receive at a large dinner. No such quibbling is tolerated of Swedish males. Norwegians...
...line of railroad takes you from the shabby Greensboro station an hour or two back through the hills to a smart, new station. Like as not the Travelers Aid attendant will invite you to use her telephone instead of the pay-booth. She is Winston-Salem's first hostess and sets the pace for hospitality. Climbing a steep green hill you arrive in the city's centre, where a huge factory, trim and modernized, notifies you at once of the city's presiding power: REYNOLDS...