Word: hostings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...midday last week, in the banquet hall of the Central Trust Co., Chicago, there was a banquet. Seymour Parker Gilbert, "Dawes plan' administrator, sat down. He was guest of honor. Vice President Dawes, president of the Central Trust Co., sat down. He was host. Samuel Insull, James A. Patten, Alexander Hamilton Revell, Julius Rosenwald, Melvin Alvah Traylor, Silas Hardy Strawn, David Robertson Forgan, Walter Ansel Strong and many another potent, eminent, Chicagoan sat down. And Mayor William Hale Thompson sat down too. He was the guest who caused the most comment-social comment outside of Chicago, because...
...Book. The Bishops of the Church of England attempted to preserve this latitudinarianism and at the same time to create some authority for parochial idiosyncracies. Thus they arranged for an alternative marriage service in which they might omit the word "obey." And they provided for the "reservation of the Host," already practiced by some priests. "Reservation of the Host" means that the wafer consecrated at a mass preserves its sanctity, can be set aside (reserved) and carried to those unable to attend church services...
MORROW'S ALMANACK-edited by Burton Rascoe-William Morrow ($2). Editor Rascoe, who seems to be aware of everything in the world, has concocted an oldtime almanack distinctly in harmony with the traditional mood of the season. To his aid have rushed a host of accomplished specialists with important contributions. Marc Connelly, playwright & seer, provides the general forecast for the approaching year; Critic Nathan suggests a breath-taking change in post-Volstead nomenclature; Banker Streeter* supplies a startling opinion of what 1928 will do for Big Business; Florenz Ziegfeld dissertates on his favorite topic; poems flow from many...
...even to the tardy and the unlucky. On Christmas Eve Professor Copeland will step to the microphone and speak to an audience which is bound only by interplanetary space. It may not be true that the coughing of the aerial static will be silent as the voice of the host at Hollis 15 travels through the night. Absurd it certainly is to place credence in the rumor that a radio firm has named its newest loudspeaking horn the Cornucopia. Irrelevancies aside, Professor Copeland, whether in Sever 11, the Union, or vibrating the crisp winter air above a million houses...
...cast and chorus follow: Gabriel R. D. Sweezey '28 Abiathus, the high priest Charles Leatherbee '29 Abraham G. R. Holden '31 Solomon Abbott Peterson '30 Ben Judas L. F. Robinson '30 Joseph J. M. Sargent '31 Envious One G. W. Harrington '30 Zachary D. W. Moreland '28 Host R. H. Jones '30 Shepherd G. R. Holden '31 Shepherd Abbott Peterson '30 Suitor Hamilton Warren ocC. Suitor Adam Rhodes '30 Mary Helen Lewis Elizabeth Helen Field Anastasia Sue Birnie Handmaiden Jessica Hill Handmaiden Margaret Child...