Word: greet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Latin shrugs greet any query as to where Papa Mussolini and Père Laval earned all that money. Both have airtight alibis...
...sympathy, no best wishes rose to greet brown, broad-shouldered Champion Max Baer as that prime poseur, playboy and punchinello of the U. S. prize ring parted the ropes. The customers could not help resenting the fact that Baer's night club escapades, his cinema career (The Prizefighter and the Lady), his reluctance to train properly, amounted to a refusal to take seriously the sport of fisticuffing and, by inference, its patrons. The fact that he had won his title in the same ring where he was now about to risk it. and where no championship had ever been...
...Little Statesman," Dr. Eduard Benes, perpetual Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia, set off last week for a goodwill visit to Moscow. As his train halted in Warsaw, Col. Josef Beck, Germanophile Polish Foreign Minister, was pointedly not at the station, snubbed Dr. Benes by sending only minor Polish officials to greet...
...Down to Washington's Navy Yard went the President to greet returning Antarctic Explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd. Cannon boomed a 13-gun salute to Admiral Byrd, a big-gun salute to Secretary Swanson, two 21-gun salutes to President Roosevelt-a prodigal display which left Grandchildren ''Sistie" and ''Buzzie'' Dall quailing...
Waiting on the cobblestones to greet him stood the President of the United States, who presently spoke into a national radio hook-up microphone: "It is no small thing to have filled in another large portion of the map of the world which had hitherto been a blank. It is an equally great achievement to have added valuable information in at least 22 separate branches of science." Then the President of the United States took off his hat and said: "Admiral, I salute you." Then Franklin Roosevelt grasped the Admiral's hand and said: "And let me add just...