Word: hostings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...evening clothes, immaculately dressed, an elderly gentleman stepped over the White House threshold. Yes, it was the same place. It was some time since he had frequented its portals or had arrived there as a dinner guest. In those days, he had been welcomed by a different host- a taller man of eloquent tongue, equally slender, with face even more austere, with clear-some said cold- eyes. The entering guest paused only a moment on the threshold. Then Bernard M. Baruch, Chairman of the one-time War Industries Board, close friend of Woodrow Wilson, entered to dine with Calvin Coolidge...
...Then win another!' "To our friends in all the world and to the law-nullifiers in our own Republic, we confidently radiocast the assertion: 'The work of the W. C. T. U. is just beginning.'"-so exhorted Miss Anna A. Gordon, President, to a great host of women, brimming with enthusiasm, who assembled in Chicago to celebrate the 50th birthday of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Miss Gordon herself dwells in Evanston, also the home of Charles G. Dawes. She lives in Rest Cottage, which was the home of Frances E. Willard, founder...
...little bacon grease and a dirty flue was enough to bring a host of fire apparatus and half the University to Smith Halls kitchen yesterday noontime...
Winnipeg. Mayor Farmer, surrounded by a host of officials, met the Baron. He hurried to a squash racquets club, enjoyed a game with Colonel Arthur Sullivan, lunched at the Fort Garry Hotel and three hours after his arrival was speeding toward Calgary...
Hanover played host to the Canadian eleven from McGill University on Saturday for the first time since 1882, and gave the visitors a decisive if not cordial welcome. Six touchdowns crashed over the McGill line. Hammering line plays and a well developed aerial attack featured the Wah-Hoo-Wah offence. One pass, from Oberlander to Robinson, went for 45 yards, while the Green team completed five out of its eight attempts, all of them for long gains...