Word: hostings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Number Nine were well rewarded for their labors. Doffing helmets, wiping hands on shirt, they soon were regaled with coffee, sandwiches, perfectos, etc., etc., not to mention genial wisecracks and charming smiles, all served with a maximum of relish after the excitement by perhaps the most persuasive host and hostess in all U. S. politics-Speaker of the House and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth...
...hunt the state has ever known, Tennessee honored its beloved old sportsman and one time (1920-22) governor, Alfred Alexander Taylor. And up in the rugged foothills of the Smoky Mountains, on the northeastern tongue of Tennessee, the rugged 80-year-old "Sage of Happy Valley" played jovial host to the folk who had finally elected him their chief only eight years before...
Governor Fuller made public an exchange of letters with Secretary Davis in which he suggested the idea of the parade. He discussed the matter with W. S. Bingham '16, director of Athletics, who felt that the plan was very good. Massachusetts will play host to the 1200 cadets at a luncheon before the game in the Commonwealth Armory. Secretary Davis is conferring with the superintendent of the Military Academy with whom the final decision rests...
...West Point corps on Boston Common the morning of the day of the game. Even at this early date negotiations are being made with the Superintendent of the United States Military Academy. Furthermore, it is a tentative proposal that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts be given the privilege of being host to the 1200 cadets at a luncheon at the Commonwealth Armory after the proposed drill...
...appearance of military full dress, resplendent with gold braid, epaulets, and decorations, in Hub salons, salles-a-manger, and ball-rooms. In view of this situation, gratifying as the Boston hospitality promises to be, the University will undoubtedly view with alarm the usurpation of its prerogatives as a host...