Word: greet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under the auspices of the Harvard Dramatic Club the Ben Greet Players will again appear in Boston when they give Shakespeare's "Comedy of Errors" and "Julius Caesar" in January. Sir Philip Ben Greet and an all-English company will give only two performances both at Jordan Hall on January 19. Julius Caesar will be presented at a matinee and the "Comedy of Errors" in the evening...
Last year the Dramatic Club invited Blanche Yurka to play in "Electra" in Boston, an example which was followed by requests for her to play at other colleges. By inviting Sir Philip Ben Greet's Shakespeare Company the Club hopes to set the precedent of sponsoring the productions of a well known company annually in this city...
...Last week gifts of holiday food reached the White House in abundance. President Hoover went outside to greet the driver of a creaky old cart which a pair of oxen had drawn from Maine. In the cart were 40 bu. of Maine potatoes, a present from Governor Gardiner. Three days later Maine potatoes were sent out to Washington's relief agencies for distribution among the poor...
...nasal, twangy accent of Alfred Emanuel Smith was described by Professor William Cabell Greet of Barnard College as "coastal," typical of speech everywhere on the Eastern seaboard...
...Brooklyn, Thomas ("Cheerful Tom") Nestor left work early. A sandhog, digging under the East River in an atmosphere of compressed air, he was eager to get home and tidy up the apartment to greet his wife next day when she returned from the hospital with their new baby. He hurried through the decompression chambers, found himself in normal air pressure too soon. At 3 a. m. he woke up choking, writhing with "the bends." Gasping for air, he staggered to a window, threw himself against the pane, fell to the sidewalk three stories below. His wife & baby remained...