Word: hostings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Committee appointed by the Board of Overseers to visit the University Library held its annual meeting and dinner last evening in the Widener Memorial rooms. The Chairman, Mr. Francis R. Appleton '75, of New York, was the host to the Committee and a few other guests. The table was spread the length of the inner library room. The blazing fire in the large marble fire-place, carved English oak walls, cases brilliant with gilded morocco bindings, high-backed, crimson-upholstered chairs borrowed from the Farnsworth House, silver, linen and candle-light, combined to give a setting more familiar in stories...
With the start of the preliminary heats of the Interclass Regatte to-day the rowing season may be considered well on. This afternoon the host of watermen push off like Ulyssess' companions, and smile the sounding furrows. The crews sitting best in order may be considered top-heavy favorites...
...arid Humbug's host...
...Once he gave a large dinner in Washington. One of his guests wanted a certain brand of Cairo cigarettes. He ordered them brought to the banquet table. They were not to be had in Washington. The host insisted that they be found and brought to his guest. It was impossible. Impossible! He excused himself and went to Egypt and got the cigarettes, returning months afterward satisfied...
...Among the innumerable host of Democrats who sit patiently at the feet of a Presidential nomination is a gentleman from New York...