Word: hostings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard Club of Philadelphia will be host to the 136 Associated Harvard Clubs which will gather in the Quaker City for their thirtieth annual convention, May 17, 18, and 19, it was announced yesterday to the CRIMSON by the executive committee. Harvard men from all over the world are expected to attend...
These, spoken in Washington, last week, were the words of famed General John Joseph Pershing as he prepared to act as host at a dinner for the members of the national and executive committees of Washington Cathedral.* At the dinner, it was announced that $800,000 had been given for work on the choir and the crossing of the new edifice. General Pershing, as chairman of the national committee, assumed formal leadership of the campaign to raise $6,800,000 immediately and $30,000,000 ultimately with which to make the cathedral a "U. S. Westminster Abbey." He spoke further...
...Your President not only was a charming host, but he displayed a broad knowledge of the progress of the Free State." C. Mrs. John Garibaldi Sargent, wife of the Attorney General, arrived in Washing- ton from Ludlow, Vt., recovered at last from long illness. President and Mrs. Coolidge went to the Sargents' for a dinner which was a friends' reunion as well as the fourth function of a regular series conducted in wintertime by Cabinet members. Secretaries Kellogg, Mellon and Dwight Filley Davis had already performed their duties in this respect. Secretary Work's dinner was scheduled...
...heading in from all directions. Jesse Holman Jones's hotel, the Rice, will doubtless be headquarters. Smaller hotels such as the Lamar and Warwick, will take in overflow and there is an old custom in Texas, which Houstonians practice specially, of throwing open private homes when the city is host to some...
Through the wide portal of a sumptuous residence in Tokyo a slender Pole strode jerkily. Ushered into the presence of his host, he shook respectfully a crinkly parchment hand. Soon two august heads were laid together in musical conspiracy: 1) The silky-haired topknot of Leopold Stokowski, vacationing conductor of the Philadelphia Symphony and 2) The clipped and pomaded poll of Prince Tokugawa, "the Japanese Otto Kahn," a lineal descendant of the Shoguns or Tycoons ("High Princes") who ruled Japan from 1603 until the present Imperial Dynasty was restored...