Word: hostings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...addition, a host of foreigners are entering Russia, seeking concessions for various enterprises...
WISDOM'S DAUGHTER ? H. Rider Haggard?Doubleday ($1.75). The host of Mr. Haggard's readers will allow neither famine, pestilence, nor the injured moans of the sophisticated to keep them from his latest work. This is another novel in the manner of She, about a woman who is unfortunately made to live 2,000 years...
...have many other interests in Cambridge our Union Society is installing a wireless receiving set, the reclusive Mr. Housman of the "Shropshire Lad" is to read a paper to the Pembroke Society, the University boat is the food for much thought and discussion but these and the host of other topics must await the the privilege of another occasion...
...Pasha gave a party to celebrate his marriage. The guests assembled in a well-known French hotel celebrated for its wines; but there was nothing to drink-not until the proprietor discreetly mentioned to Kemal that the cellar was full. " Bring us up some of the best," said the host. " But, Sir, our cellar has been sealed by the gendarmes." " Ah! " said Mustapha, " tell them to unseal...
...must be a great relief and rather an encouragement to those same reformers to find that their notoriously proper neighbors across the water are suffering from the same lamentable public sentiment which supports our pink and green and yellow journals to "pander to the blood lust of a host of lowbrow readers". In this part of the world there have been so many murder stories recently, reported of necessity by even the best newspapers, that the genuine highbrow (a species which appears to be dangerously near extinction in the welter of blood and bullets) must discontinue his newspaper subscriptions altogether...