Word: greet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Following dinner, which will be served in the Houses, the Seniors will form in the Triangle and march to the Stadium for the program beginning at 2 o'clock. Here Vincent Palmer will greet the assemblage with the Ivy Oration, followed by a stunt by the Class of 1910, the cheering for President Conant, the response by Conant, and coming to a conclusion with the usual savage confetti battle...
...nonstop to Mexico, D. F. (1,700 mi.). The prospect of a visit from the world's No. 1 woman aviator so excited Mexicans that most Government employes were given a holiday, a special postage stamp issue was arranged, and swarthy Foreign Minister Emilio Fortes Gil prepared to greet the lady in the name of the Republic...
...rigid at attention as the young man who was once plain Mr. Henry Pu Yi passed. In Tokyo all rail traffic in & out of Tokyo station was stopped for two hours; the entire railway station district was cleared. And Japan's Son-of-Heaven himself went down to greet the onetime occupant of China's Dragon Throne. Correspondents, kept back with the Tokyo populace to a distance of one block on either side of the imperial route, spitefully cabled that they could not be sure they had seen the Emperor of Manchukuo, hinted that a double might have...
...Parisian institution that lends its name to the production receives only a minimum of attention, which is just as well, since the poor "Folies" as interpreted by cosmopolitan Hollywood seem to have taken on the Busy Berkeley tradition, all of which we greet with cautious skepticism and even displeasure. Although a prepossessing list of now songs are advertised, none of them seem very promising. It is the mistaken identity with which the film stands or falls, and as far as we are concerned we like this sort of thing...
...Virginia has him arrested. At his trial Charlie breaks out on the witness stand, tells too much of the truth. He is sent to the penitentiary for a long term. As the story ends his pardon is imminent, but the nephew-narrator will not be there to greet him; he is leaving home for good, going North to college. But John has begun to understand that his uncle's criminal outbreak was a gesture less of lust than of despair - "repeated and forever repeated, the rape of the mind by the body...