Word: hostings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spend weeks and weeks indoors. When the danger, whatever it was, had passed "Boo Boo" turned up again at his old haunt, a multi-roomed suite in a Philadelphia hotel. Once again the "mob" made whoopee. Once again "Boo Boo" played emperor among his rabelaisian underlings and generous host to out-of-town visitors. Visiting sport-writers among whom "Boo Boo" is universally popular, often received bottles of whiskey soon after they register at their Philadelphia hotels. There is never any explanation of these presents, but they have tended to increase the Hoff reputation for generosity. Few "regular guys" were...
Before long Host Hohenzollern inquired of Guest Mackensen what evidences he had recently observed that the German people are eager for restoration of their Kaiser and Crown Prince...
...imprisoning a god. And throughout his Indian sojourn he learned to understand that reverence for the almighty cobra. One night he was wakened by an unearthly din; his terrified dog crept under the mosquito netting with him. In a pool of moonlight a family of cats fought with a host of rats: danse macabre to the rhythm of warlike squeaks and terrific meows: Then sudden silence. A glistening cobra had glided out of the gloom. Glassy-eyed, cats and rats, man and dog, stared fascinated while the snake feasted upon a rat, upon a kitten...
Died. Robert Grain, 63, Maryland politician & corporation lawyer; owner of the largest private estate in Maryland, famed host; of intestinal trouble; in Washington...
...name), now in the presence of Almighty God the Father, the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Blessed St. John the Baptist, the saints, sacred host of Heaven, to you my Ghostly Father, the superior general of the Society of Jesus, founded by St. Ignatius Loyola, in the pontification of Paul IV and continued to the present, do, by the womb of the Virgin, the matrix of God, and the rod of Jesus Christ, declare and swear that His Holiness the Pope is Christ's vice-Regent and the true and only head of the Catholic or Universal Church throughout...