Word: guestly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Crown Princess Juliana of The Netherlands was a house guest at the White House for several days, during which the Princess visited Mount Vernon with Mrs. Roosevelt (Said she: "Why, there are no cupboards in the rooms ! Where did they hang their clothes?"). The Princess was given an ovation at a National Symphony concert in Constitution Hall, attended Mrs. Roosevelt's press conference, and, as an amateur camera enthusiast, calmly took photographs of the newscameramen snapping pictures...
Though Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles pointed out that "Her Royal Highness came to the U. S. upon the invitation of this Government, and is a guest of this country under unusual circumstances," Maryland ruled that Norway's Crown Princess Martha, who lives not far from Washington in a house the President helped her pick, will have to pay a State income tax if she stays...
...four finalists: two from Purdue University, "Loyal Alumnus III" and "College Maid"; the University of Alberta's "Robin Hood" and 18-year-old Evelyn Asay's fat little "Sargo." Judge Yule paced from one to another in solemn worriment, arms hang ing, fingers outstretched like a house guest looking for a towel. Finally he waved the Purdue entries aside. Josh Biglands, sawedoff, red-faced herdsman of the University of Alberta, shortened his grip on "Robin Hood's" tether and nudged the Shorthorn steer's feet so that his 1,245 pounds were evenly distributed. Pretty Evelyn...
...crowd with her, as Judge Yule well knew. He fiddled with a Canadian $5 gold piece on his watch chain. He felt the tailhead of Canadian-bred Shorthorn and U. S.-bred Hereford, poked ribs, chest, shoulders like a house guest poking the guest bed mattress. He tipped his hat forward, tipped it back. He held a whispered consultation with Armour & Co.'s portly old Colonel Edward Norris Wentworth, perennial ringmaster of livestock shows, who apparently gave him no help...
...Mexico City's El Patio nightclub last fortnight, the Oles! rang loud; the band played the bullfighters' cheer song-Diana; even Chucho Solorzano, reigning matador of the season, rose to pay his respects to the honored guest. The hullabaloo was not for Henry Wallace, visiting U. S. ambassador of good will, but dark-eyed, pale-faced Hollywood Starlet Linda Darnell. Linda, cooing contentedly in a seat between Mexican Movie Favorite Fernando Soler and portly Singer Alfonso