Word: guested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...words each show. He uses short dialogues that have such everyday applications as giving road directions to a stranger or shopping in a department store. Every Friday he summarizes the week's lessons by sprinkling the new words through an interview with an American military or civilian guest...
There are nearly 1,000 "Come-Come -Clubs" in the islands. Last week Joe was guest of honor at a rally of 2,000 fans in Urawa, 15 miles northwest of Tokyo. Like his other fans, the Urawa club members buy quantities of the English textbooks which give Joe an annual royalty of almost 5½ million yen ($15,000), plus his yearly salary of 130,000 yen. Of his four-year-old program, Joe says modestly: "I just wanted to do something for my country, and realized this...
...Return Mail. The Edgar Guest of Victorian England, Tupper could produce verse for any occasion, and with facility that was the wonder of his time. He was tipped out of a carriage once, and promptly turned out a verse on the moral lessons to be learned in carriage accidents ("0 trials and troubles and losses in life!/ What are ye but simples to strengthen my soul?"). Asked to compose an eclogue to be recited by the Queen's daughters at her birthday party, Tupper sent the lines by return mail. His practice of sending poems to the newspapers...
Twice a year, the select, exclusive and somewhat stuffy organization of 50 Washington newsmen known as the Gridiron Club holds a white-tie dinner and frolic in the capital. Traditionally, the guest of honor and principal butt of the Gridironers' jokes is the President of the U.S. Last December, Harry Truman, who does not enjoy the club's satire, was able to miss the Gridiron frolic because he was acquiring a less painful burn, in the sun at Key West, Fla. Although Gridironers were miffed, the club nevertheless invited the President to its May meeting. This time...
...fitness to support Elizabeth; the first meeting with his future son-in-law's proud parents; the engagement party, at which he is too busy mixing drinks in the kitchen to make his carefully prepared announcement. His consternation grows as the plans for a "small wedding" burgeon into guest lists of 572 for the ceremony and 280 for the reception. As a way out, he offers Elizabeth $1,500 to elope, withdraws the offer when he sees her disappointment...