Word: greet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trice the powerful right arm of Marshal Pilsudski had raised up Mile. Janusewska. Having saluted her with respectful gallantry, he turned to the other pilgrims. "I myself will finish the beautiful speech of this young lady. I know that you greet me in the name of all Polish-Americans. I welcome you here and I ask you to kiss all your friends, when you return, both Polish and American, in behalf of the land of Poland...
...greet Kemal all Constantinople was en fete. Fifty thousand electric bulbs were festooned along the streets and from the minarets of Stamboul.* Even at Pera† the Diplomatic Corps and foreigners generally decked their establishments, in honor of Kemal. He came, at last, steaming up the Bosporus on a cream white yacht, once the Sultan's. Twelve large and forty small steamers followed. Turkish gunboats blazed salutes. The whole city rang with Kemal's nickname of honor: "Ghazi," "The Victorious...
President Coolidge. Many were the murmurs of concern that hummed from a vast throng of medical men and their families, gathered in a penetrating rain on the White House lawn. President Coolidge was to greet them; but the miserable weather might cause aggravation of the bad cold that had kept him confined to bed the fore part of the week. There was talk of dissuading him from the ceremony. However, the rigor of the weather did not deter the President. He appeared, bundled in a great raincoat, wearing sensible rubbers. Beside him posed Mrs. Coolidge, hale, gracious, benign...
...Pickwick opened his shutters of his rooms in Goswell street to the newly-radiant sun 100 years ago and speculated upon his adventures, and will include visits to the State House, where Governor Fuller will receive the "Commodore Coach" and its members, and Harvard, where President Lowell will greet the characters...
...Orleans, where the Thompson trip was to terminate in welcome-speeches, in reception-com-mittees, masses of citizens were gathered, not to greet but to repel a visitor. Chagrined, but sympathetic, sorry, the Mayor gave $1,000 to Memphis floodfighters. In all, his party contributed...