Word: greet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Denver early next morning Governor Edwin C. Johnson and Mayor Benjamin F. Stapleton, both Democrats, were at the station to greet Colorado's distinguished guest. The party piled into automobiles and, with Nominee Landon leaning out to shake hands wherever his car stopped, motored through Denver and out to a rented 1,200-acre ranch near Estes Park, in Roosevelt National Forest, where the Landon family was to spend the summer. In the big, low, rambling ranch-house that afternoon newshawks found the Republican nominee stretched out before a log fire in breeches and windbreaker, scratching away...
Unknowns- In 1921 Yale turned out with brass bands and welcoming streamers to greet its new President James Rowland Angell. It was a meeting of two unknown quantities. Of the two, Yale was by far the more perplexing. A hectic period of social and spiritual campus unrest, later identified as the Jazz Age, had just begun. And in the teeth of it, the nation's Second School had just undergone a sweeping reorganization at the hands of a committee of faculty and trustees headed by Publisher Henry Johnson Fisher of McCall's and the University's Secretary...
...automobile salesman in a Toronto suburb which gave him the use of a car, time off for long, mysterious automobile trips; the other from Toronto's Hotel Nealon to sit about the lobby of an evening, be pointed out as "Canada's Dillinger" (reformed), and greet visiting firemen. Red Ryan's lectures, incorporated in a book called The Futility of Crime, were ready for the presses last week. Ryan the Prodigal never neglected to pay weekly visits to his old friend Chaplain Kingsley at Kingston. On one of these a friend asked him if he had been...
There citizens read newspaper extras announcing Lea's parole, ran wild, yowled: "Praise the Lord! Luke's out! Glory, Hallelujah!" At Lebanon, 40 miles out side Nashville, a crowd accompanied by an American Legion band gathered to greet Colonel Lea, who, as an A. E. F. artilleryman, tried to kidnap the Kaiser after the Armistice...
...attendant, Funsters McCune & Rich were clapped into jail. Even so they could congratulate themselves on having taken part in a two-day pre-Lenten spree which, for sheer hell-raising, was unsurpassed since the fabulous days when the Louisville & Nashville Railroad used to send smiling black waiters to greet all incoming trains with great trays of free Sazerac cocktails...