Word: hosted
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...recorded history of the Church, an alteration in the time of celebrating the High Mass usually performed at midnight Christmas Eve. In localities where a blackout is enforced His Holiness permitted this Mass to be celebrated as early as the afternoon of Dec. 24. Those who partake of the Host may do so, by exceptional Apostolic indulgence, after having fasted for four hours...
Until the host of young people are provided with a permanent place in a revised economic order, there are before them two possible futures. They can drift along, bewildered, dissatisfied, listening for the sweet music of a Pied Piper's promises. Or they can sink their roots into the democratic earth, can get a feeling that they are both giving something to, and getting something from, our society...
After arguing all evening against Novelist Thomas Mann's and Educator Robert Maynard Hutchins' view that Chicago was a city of crime, stocky, curly-headed Lloyd Downs Lewis, Chicago Daily News sports editor, drama critic, historian (Chicago-The History of Its Reputation), bade Host Hutchins goodnight, departed. In the street Editor Lewis & wife met three robbers, surrendered $8 cash, a mink coat, $4,350 worth of jewelry. Returning to the house, he announced ruefully: "I take back everything...
...recalled a dinner where Novelist Anthony Trollope was host, publicity-wise Poet Joaquin Miller was guest of honor. Twain was "an obliterated guest." Miller was affecting "the picturesque and untamed costume of the wild Sierras ... to the charmed astonishment of conventional London ... He and Trollope talked all the time and both at the same time. . . ." But then, it suddenly seems scarcely important: "It was long ago, long ago-and not even an echo of that turbulence was left in this room. . . . Trollope is dead. . . . Joaquin Miller is white-headed and mute and quiet in his dear mountains...
...That was no meeting--that was a merry-go-round." Which it would be--if you were to try to have a look-in at the host of meetings scheduled for tonight...