Word: greet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cables carried the news from Madras. The Theosophical Society had opened the celebration of its 50th anniversary. To greet the aged President Annie Besant was a sufficiently grand collection of 5,000 delegates of 37 nationalities. But there were no further details concerning the "reincarnation of Christ in the person of J. Krishnamurti...
...admire the work on your covers by such nationally known artists as Gordon Stevenson and S. J. Woolf, and always look forward eagerly to see what new face is to greet me from the newsstand. Is it not sufficient that I actually pay you more, buying TIME copy by copy, than if I subscribed? Should I not be entitled to the "right" possessed by the subscribers who pay you less...
...Greet...
Another Story: "To greet this Cabinet [above], Asquith, Lloyd George and I went to Paris. . . . Asquith would not, Lloyd George could not, and I had to speak French. In French I know my vocabulary to be limited, my grammar to be imperfect, and my genders to be at the mercy of chance; further, I am told that my accent is atrocious.... When the Council was over. . .Lloyd George said to me: 'You know your French was the only French that I could understand...
...delegation of Negroes called at the White House and addressed Mr. Coolidge thus through th?ir spokesman: "In behalf of the 15,000 colored Congregationalists of the United States, we greet you as a fellow-Congregationalist in whom we have full confidence. . . . "Particularly do we want to thank you for that great word you spoke at Omaha, the bravest word spoken by any Executive for three-score years. It sounds like Lincoln...