Word: invitee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seldom does a U. S. President invite a serious political rival to the White House. Nevertheless, three days after Candidate Borah's announcement, Franklin Roosevelt had the Senator in to share his lunch on the Presidential desk. On arrival, Mr. Borah gladly posed for photographers with his hand upon...
Assuming that all the 75,000,000 adult inhabitants of the U. S. could be induced to buy admission to a birthday ball, tickets would have to be priced at $10 a head to raise the $550,000,000 required to pay for the New Deal's AAA substitute...
Whereupon I took occasion to tell him of the noise and that I could not sleep in the Tower this morning but, bless my soul, he was not aware that this be the Vagabond's home these twelve years past. Whereupon he told me he had not been in the...
The Vagabond regrets he cannot invite you all to this small feast in honor of Mr. Richard Harlow--but he does know Dunster would ring out a happy welcome to you to hear Mr. Harlow's informal talk on college football at 7:30 in the large common room.
Purcell would invite to a game those who scoff at badminton as a "non" sport. "I could have them flat on their backs and gasping for breath in a few minutes," he exclaimed. He feels, however, that this attitude will soon be gone, and the game will be as popular...