He also supported Dr. James Cantlie in the formation of the Odd Volumes Society in 1893. He played chess and kept open house in his chambers for chess players at 4.30 p.m. on Wednesdays.
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The triumphal entry of the Prince of Orange in Brussels. Print from The Wars of Nassau by Willem Baudartius. Up to this time William's life had been marked by lavish display and extravagance. He surrounded himself with a retinue of young noblemen and dependents and kept open house in his magnificent Nassau palace at Brussels.
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Cordell retired with his wife and son to their sheep farm in the English countryside, where they kept open house to many of Britain's leading artists and musicians including The Beatles. Cordell died in Hastings in 1980, and his original manuscripts now reside in the archives at the Trinity College of Music in London.
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He entertained and kept open house, which meant that anyone present at lunchtime was automatically invited to dine. Everyday was like an Election Day – with people coming to ask for assistance, financial or otherwise. A very generous man, he was not averse to using his personal financial resources to help those in need. Manuel Tinio dedicated the remainder of his life to politics.
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Montreal in Evolution: Historical Analysis of the Development of Montreal's Architecture and Urban Environment. By Jean-Claude Marsan The McGillivrays were well known for their hospitality and kept open house at St. Antoine, as they had done before in their townhouse on St. Gabriel Street. Even his old rival John Jacob Astor came to dine there once a year on his annual trips to Montreal. The ballroom was said to be "an enchanting sight".
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He relates that the Maggid passed the entire week in his room, permitting only a few confidants to enter. He appeared in public only on Shabbat, dressed in white satin. On those occasions he prayed with people, and kept open house for anyone who wanted to dine with him. After the meal he would reportedly begin to chant, and placing his hand upon his forehead, would ask those present to quote any verse from the Bible.
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May Wilson family had to experience a seven-year drought at Dubbo, New South Wales, and as a result, the entire family moved to Melbourne. Harris went to Presbyterian Ladies’ College and worked at Carlton Free Kindergarten as a voluntary helper. Rita May married Norman Charles Harris on 10 April 1912 at the Presbyterian Church, Armadale. During World War II, Harrises kept open house on weekends, and numerous serviceman were entertained there with large tennis parties.
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King George III adored her, and she supported the King, so she was allowed to promote her Scottish heritage more than others would have dared. She gave a ball at which she and the Duchess of York dressed in tartan when it was officially banned, and she arranged for the King to inspect troops dressed in tartan in Hyde Park. It was in the Pall Mall house that she held her greatest parties. Close to Parliament in Westminster, she kept open house for the Tories.
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Her serious interest in British flora developed after moving to Copyhold near Cuckfield in 1893. The botanist G. Claridge Druce became a friend and frequent visitor with whom Davy explored the countryside around her home, contributing numerous finds to records of Sussex flora. In 1899 she joined the Wild Flower Society which increased her interest and contacts with other plant enthusiasts. She lived in Pyrford from 1909 before moving to West Byfleet in 1922 where she kept "open house" for botanists of different ages and levels of experience.
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The Liverpool they came to, dominated as it was by casual labour and irregularity of income, was characterised by poverty, ill health, squalid housing conditions and hand-to-mouth subsistence. During the winter of 1906-7, Mary was on the rota of women who made soup to sell at a farthing a bowl from a Clarion caravan parked by St George's Hall on Lime Street. She visited the sick, collected for the unemployed and kept open house for travelling socialists. She frequently spoke at outdoor meetings, often at the Wellington monument or on street corners.
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The couple settled on the farm Boschheuvel, originally named Wijnberg and later renamed Bishopscourt, the original owner having been Jan van Riebeek, first Dutch Governor of the Cape. The farm lay on the slopes of Table Mountain, well- watered and with dense woodland. Here Sophy, using the old slave quarters, started a school for her five children and those of the community. Despite disliking social engagements, she kept open house to a constant stream of church officials and dignitaries, as well as managing Robert's diocese that included the Cape, Orange Free State, Natal and the islands of Tristan da Cunha and St. Helena.
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Spare's obituary printed in The Times of 16 May 1956 states: > Thereafter Spare was rarely found in the purlieus of Bond St. He would teach > a little from January to June, then up to the end of October, would finish > various works, and from the beginning of November to Christmas would hang > his products in the living-room, bedroom, and kitchen of his flat in the > Borough. There he kept open house; critics and purchasers would go down, > ring the bell, be admitted, and inspect the pictures, often in the company > of some of the models - working women of the neighbourhood.
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The location of the ancient city Paos has been found near the modern village, of which the remainder remains to be excavated.styga.gr Ancient artifacts and remains of the walls have been found. It had a perimeter of 516 m, and had an almost triangular shape with its point facing west with its acropolis in the middle and some ancient buildings to the south, its springs used to be to the northeast with an aqueduct north of the old city. It was said that Euphorion from Paos gave lodging to the Dioscuri, and ever since kept open house for all men.
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Assisted by learned contributors to his study-group, Gorsleben developed an original and eclectic mystery religion founded in part upon the Armanism of List, whom he quoted with approval. Grand Master of the Society was Werner von Bülow (1870–1947). The treasurer was Friedrich Schaefer from Mühlhausen, whose wife, Käthe, kept open house for another occult-völkisch circle (the 'Free Sons of the North and Baltic Seas') which gathered around Karl Maria Wiligut in the early 1930s. Mathilde von Kemnitz, a prolific völkisch writer who married General Erich Ludendorff in 1926, was an active member of the Edda Society.
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After his mother's death in 1803, the Wall Street house was closed and Daniel and his family moved to Mount Gulian, In 1822, he sold the Wall Street house to the Bank of the United States for use as its New York branch. At Mount Gulian, Verplanck kept open house summer and winter and received family members and many notable guests. On Christmas 1826, he hosted a number of West Point cadets, including Thomas Boylston Adams, Jr., grandson of John Adams, and nephew of Verplanck's neighbor Caroline Smith DeWindt. (In his 1892 The History of Abraham Isaacse Verplanck, W.E. Verplanck confuses cadet Adams with his father, Thomas Boylston Adams).
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The citizens kept open house, quarrels were forgotten, debtors and prisoners were released, and everything done to banish sorrow. Similar honors were paid to other divinities in subsequent times: Fortuna, Saturnus, Juno Regina of the Aventine, the three Capitoline deities (Jupiter, Juno, Minerva). In 217 BC, after the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene, a lectisternium was held for three days to six pairs of gods, corresponding to the Twelve Olympians of ancient Greek religion: Jupiter, Juno, Neptune, Minerva, Mars, Venus, Apollo, Diana, Vulcan, Vesta, Mercury, Ceres. In 205 BC, alarmed by unfavorable prodigies, the Romans were ordered to fetch the Great Mother of the gods from Pessinus in Phrygia; in the following year the image was brought to Rome, and a lectisternium held.
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Writers Paul Theroux, Jim Harrison and Susan Sontag, among others, have offered debts of gratitude for his influence on their work. Television news celebrity and author Walter Cronkite, who heard him lecture in the mid-1930s, credited Halliburton with steering him into a career in journalism.For Walter Cronkite see his A Reporter's Life (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996), pp. 34-35. As the writer of a succession of bestsellers, and as a popular lecturer, Halliburton figured prominently in educating several generations of young Americans in the rudiments of geography, history and culture, especially through his two Books of Marvels,See, for instance, Gerry Max, "Richard Halliburton and Thomas Wolfe: When Youth Kept Open House", North Carolina Literary Review no. 5 (1996), 82–93.
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He passed the time raiding ashore from small boats, in one 1715 incident stealing slaves from a local settlement. Later he would be described as “formerly a noted Buccaneer, and while he followed the Calling, robb'd and plundered many a Man.” He gained his “Old Cracker” nickname after he moved to Whiteman's Bay, just down the river from Bunce Island. He kept his vessels – several small boats and a periagua - as well as native slaves and servants, and welcomed pirates who came to trade. Captain Charles Johnson wrote that Leadstone “keeps the best House in the Place, has two or three Guns before his Door, with which he Salutes his Friends, (the Pyrates, when they put in) and lives a jovial Life with them, all the while they are there.” Another writer described him in glowing terms: “He was the soul of hospitality and good fellowship, and kept open-house for all pirates, buccaneers, and privateersmen.” Leadstone was among at least 30 former pirates who traded goods to passing ships in need of resupply. They also supplied slaves and ivory to merchants who avoided the Royal African Company's trading monopoly.
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Retrieved March 5, 2017. While an apprentice in Smead's shop he came under the influence of his employer's young wife and converted to her evangelical faith. In 1838 Miron Winslow in Madras, India came into possession of the printing presses formerly used there by the Church Mission Society, and through the ABCFM he put out a call for an American printer to come to India to take charge of the press. P.R. Hunt, then 23 years old, hearing of this appeal, wrote to the ABCFM in Boston volunteering to take the post, and was accepted. On July 26, 1839 he was married in Boston to Miss Abigail Nims of Bath, a 29-year-old schoolteacher who was the sister of his mentor Mrs. Smead. Four days later they embarked from Boston for Madras reaching there in March 1840."A Useful Life", Life and Light for Woman, October 1877, p. 312. Retrieved February 27, 2017. Hunt worked there for 27 years as director of the American Mission Press in Madras, while his wife Abigail kept open house at their home on Popham's Broadway for missionaries passing through Madras on their way to stations in India.
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