Word: hostings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...third night, the circle had assembled before the host appeared. He carried three boxes of cigars and had them passed around. Suddenly he left the room, returning with a ten-gallon hat on his head...
Philadelphia played host to bankers...
...Writer Winkler reminds readers at least three times that Hearst never touches alcohol, though as a good host he serves wine to his guests...
Precedent demands that Queen Wilhelmina shall inaugurate the final matches, which will come in early August. Never, since the Olympiad was revived at Athens in 1896, has the Head of any State which has been host*to the Olympians refused to honor them. But last week Queen Wilhelmina voiced the equivalent of a refusal. Firm, logical, pious, she declared her intention of spending a two-months' holiday in Scandinavia. Prudent, she will leave behind to inaugurate the godless Olympiad, her useful Prince Consort, Henry, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin...
Harvard played host to 1200 pilgrims of old England yesterday when the delegation of British Congregational clergymen and laymen was welcomed by Professor E. C. Moore, representing President Lowell, on behalf of the Corporation. The former president of the American board of commissioners for foreign missions met the delegation at commonwealth pier yesterday and conducted the pilgrimmage to Cambridge, where the official reception was held in Appleton Chapel...