Word: guested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eamon de Valera, Prime Minister of Eire, accepted an invitation to be an overnight guest, May 7, at the White House. Object of trip: world's fairs...
...among the delegates to the Lima conference. Uruguay's welterweight strongman, who ran the country personally for seven years before turning it over to be technically run by his brother-in-law six months ago, was at home in Montevideo, touting the wonders of the Italian Government, whose guest he had just been. When the Uruguayan stooges at Lima got through renouncing the principle of trading with the dictatorships, Dr. Terra's Fascist friends cheerfully sprang the trade agreement they had been making for months in Rome...
Curator MacLeish sees that the Fellows get reserved press-box seats at Harvard Stadium games, observes how their eight wives and eleven children bear up under Boston's climate. He also arranges and presides at weekly lively dinners where Fellows hobnob with journalistic guests and Harvard bigwigs, get shaken out of their grooves. Widow Nieman, who had a taste for gin, would have enjoyed the Martinis at these affairs. The Fellows have come to refer to her affectionately as "Aunt Agnes," and Aunt Agnes' Fellows have acquired a free-swinging conversational style under brilliant Archie MacLeish. After...
Finest present of all was reserved for the President's admired friend, Harry Hopkins, who with his daughter. Diana, 6, was a house guest. Supreme Court Justice Reed came over Christmas Eve, Mrs. Roosevelt supplied a black morocco Bible, and in the presence of about 50 high officials in the President's study, Harry Hopkins was sworn in as Secretary of Commerce...
...much as the ability to read aloud. But programs like General Foods Corp.'s We, the People, in which the audience participates, run into special script troubles: the program's cross section includes people with poor eyesight, some illiterates. Average for We, the People is one guest a week who cannot see well enough to read an ordinary script. Last week the docket included a man who could not see at all- blind Musician Leonard Burford. For Guest Burford the script was typed in Braille, and he read it swiftly, accurately...