Word: guested
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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After the city campaign, Judge Vitale was guest of honor at a dinner attended by policemen and known criminals. The diners were held up by a gang of masked bandits who later returned loot to the judge's friends (TIME, Jan. 6). The New York Bar Association investigated Vitale's conduct and found, as LaGuardia had charged, that he had negotiated a $20,000 unsecured loan from Rothstein to bolster up a sagging margin account. The Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court last week heard the charge against Vitale, listened to his defense that the Rothstein...
When the prim Dutch maid opens the door and sees that a friend of the family is calling she returns the cent to the welcome guest. But if she finds on the doorstep a peddler, huckster, bill collector or offensive person of any sort she merely slams the portal and the cent is velvet...
...building which bears his name cost $2,800,000, contains 500 guest rooms and 32 tower apartments, a famed French chef, a glossy array of electric stoves, refrigerators, semi-modernistic furniture. It is floodlighted at night, has a tapestried lobby. Its seven elevators can reach the roof in 30 seconds...
...audience pays him scant attention, lets the general excellence of a performance go unmarked or attributes it to individual singers. Hence, last week, friends of Conductor Tullio Serafin of the Metropolitan Opera Company were pleased to hear of homage paid him in Philadelphia, where he appeared three times as guest conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, where he imparted to taxing symphonic programs the same glancing, theatric charm that has characterized his best performances at Manhattan's opera house...
Thirteen years ago the Swift chorus was organized as a Wartime songfest whose purpose was to sell Liberty bonds. Annual concerts were given after the War. At one of these, six years ago, Polish Soprano Claire Dux was the soloist, the guest of honor at a Swift plant luncheon. There she and Packer Charles Henry Swift met, became enamored of one another. Two years later they married...