Word: greet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...occasion itself, anyone would have said, demanded more preliminary pomp. Long has the Philharmonic angled for an option on the services of Toscanini. Only this year has he come to begin the season and to conduct the major portion. But when last week his audience stood proudly to greet him and began the expected ovation, the little man quashed it with a quick bow, turned his back, tapped smartly for attention and began the business of the evening. The Overture to Byron's Manfred, the Don Quixote of Richard Strauss and Beethoven's Seventh Symphony-these comprised...
...York (at Boston, racing from Philadelphia). Injured: Lady Mary (Sophie Elliott-Lynn) Heath, near-sighted (practicing a side-slip landing at Cleveland); Edwin Kirk, Great Lakes Aircraft mechanic, Lady Heath's passenger; William Patterson MacCracken, retiring Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics (rushing from the races to greet the Graf Zeppelin at Lakehurst); Norma Stevens of Columbus, Ohio (parachute jumping); N. K. Lankford, Navy flyer (crashed at Lorain, Ohio...
First Day. The "pastel dawn" was of course, at Friedrichshafen, Germany. In moving north, the ship circled Berlin before heading for Tokyo, 6,880 mi. away. Hearty Charles C. Younggreen of Milwaukee, President of the International Advertising Association there in convention, got to a microphone and said: "We greet the Graf Zeppelin as ambassador of good will to the entire world." The ship proceeded quietly over Danzig, Koenigsberg, the onetime Eastern War Front, into Russia...
Last week royal favor descended once more upon the potent brewers of Burton-on-Trent when Edward of Wales flew down from London, visited the brewhouse, mixed for himself a special vat of extra strong mash to be known as ''Prince's Brew." Waiting at the flying field to greet him was the Chairman of the Company, Colonel the Right Honorable John Gret-ton. Conservative M. P. for the Burton Division of Staffordshire. Waving proudly over the old brewery was a great banner lettered GOOD HEALTH TO OUR PRINCE. Edward of Wales attended a special luncheon after which he sampled...
...long ago [1912], there were about 25 automobiles in Tokyo and one poor airplane that managed to hop about three feet off the ground. Today there are more than 500.000 automobiles in Tokyo, and more than 10,000 airplanes will come to greet me, not to mention one thousand motorboats, all decorated...