Word: hostings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spent three days, last week, as the house guests of a respected and venerated British man, 62, and wife, 60. Because these four persons are great personages, their conjunction occurred amid the richest and most solemn pomp which Imperial Britain has evoked since the World War. Host and hostess: Their Britannic Majesties. Guests: President Gaston Doumergue of the French Republic and Foreign Minister Aristide Briand...
...from the once-green fields of France, with dusty roads and winding rivers, in the hazy distance, rides and marches a mighty host, the Armies of France returning victorious from fighting the enemy. Some hairy-chested sappers with picks and shovels shouldered, a squad of mounted trumpeters and a squad of fierce Bedouin cavalry whose cutlasses flash over their white stallions' necks, have already passed between two massive marble cenotaphs that stand at the entrance of a great amphitheatre...
...adventure created by Capt. Charles A. Lindbergh's flight, led airmen to predict a doubling in U. S. flying activity in 1927 and 1928. In the few days following the news of Captain Lindbergh's arrival in Paris, aviation schools throughout the U. S. reported a host of new applicants who wanted to be taught the art of flying. Barnstorming pilots noted a significant increase in the number of people who were willing to pay $3 and $5 for a few minutes' ride. One editorial writer said: "America is flying...
Notwithstanding the glory of the CRIMSON, the perusal of which is axiomatic and an obvious correlary to membership in the University; of the Lampoon, which may be either taken or left, neither process involving much thought; of the Advocate, prehistoric and unruffled, and of a host of other publications, there is one which unofficially welcomes the incoming Freshman and which is therefore extremely important. Like many other good things, however, the Phillips Brooks Harvard Handbook, inevitably referred to as his Freshman Bible, receives less praise than it merits...
Their dean, the co-founder (1920) of the Little Entente was Dr. Edouard Benes (pronounced Benesh), Foreign Minister and leading statesman of Czechoslovakia. As host, Dr. Benes welcomed Foreign Ministers Ion M. Mitilineu of Rumania and M. Marinkovitch of Jugoslavia...