11.   At home, I washed the crabs, still skittering, and calculated how many I could allot to each dinner guest.

12.   At the holiday dinner guests are encouraged to participate.

13.   Attached to a place card, sprigs give a trendy greeting to dinner guests.

14.   Baby boomers Bill and Hillary Clinton still have a string quartet on hand to play for their dinner guests during the cocktail hour.

15.   Besides, during a few decades of marital bliss, we have never yet had a dinner guest arrive wearing a bathing cap and holding a bar of Ivory.

16.   A century ago, butlers often wore mismatched trousers with their evening tail coats, to make sure no one ever mistook them for dinner guests.

17.   A dinner guest once tried to goad him by betting she could get more than two words out of him.

18.   According to a new biography of Ataturk, he once asked a dinner guest what goes best with raki.

19.   According to another dinner guest, Garcia Marquez said he never dreamed he would see Castro going to a Mass.

20.   After intermission we in the audience, like the dinner guests, witness the result.