Word: hosting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grace of Rome's great palazzi. They deplore the fact that official Washington society is made up of small-town politicians, uninteresting businessmen, journalists, and wives who wear the same dress three or four times. Embassies used to be consecrated ground for uninhibited splendor-but no longer. Now host and guest alike feel a little self-conscious about lavish suppers when the U.S. is doling out aid to the ambassador's hungry nation...
...through rubble lanes barely wide enough for a car to pass, to a factory standing in darkness. We climbed a rickety outside stairs to a second-floor door that opened into a garish six-room apartment, slyly constructed by the factory owner in violation of housing laws. Our monocled host greeted us with tipsy cheeriness as his guests oohed and aahed over his gay shirt pasted with cutouts of Esquire girls. Inside the rooms were assembled, in monstrous taste, old tapestries, carved Italian statues of the 15th Century, paintings of madonnas, and some fourscore of Bavaria's wealthiest...
...time radio sponsor (Atwater Kent Hour), he got his start making electrical equipment for automobiles, switched to radios in 1922, did an estimated $60 million worth of business in 1929. He retired in 1936 and moved to Bel Air, where his lavish parties won him the name of "Mr. Host...
Saturday Peroy's squad will wind up its intercollegiate competition when it plays host to Yale in the Indoor Athletic Building. The team lost to Yale last year by a hotly-disputed one point, and have been aiming for this match all season...
...hope you'll like it," the host replied. "Queen Mary came the other day, and seemed to approve." In fact, she had come twice, and, said the host, had firmly expressed a conviction: "This should have been done 50 years...