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Word: greeter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died- Billy Papke, 50, oldtime (1907-08; 1911-13) world's middleweight boxing champion, Los Angeles saloon "greeter"; by his own hand (revolver), after shooting and killing his divorced wife Edna, 46; on Balboa Island, Calif. Against Champion Stanley Ketchel in 1907, Papke scored a twelfth-round knockout after punching his opponent's head instead of shaking his hand, as they entered the ring. Ketchel punished him severely in a return bout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 7, 1936 | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

...more greeter appeared before the President left the railroad yards, an old Negro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Frenzy in New England | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

...gold braid, his medals and his cocked hat, very much the dyspeptic man of letters he is, and began: "Mr. President, as the personal representative of His Majesty the King, I offer my most cordial greetings to the first citizen of the United States. Canada welcomes you, sir. . . ." Next greeter was Premier Mackenzie King, roundheaded little sociologist, one-time student at Harvard and resident of Chicago's Hull House, who wore a pale-grey morning coat and grey topper, and looked as if he were on his way to the races at Ascot. Said the Dominion's real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Ces Aimables Paroles | 8/10/1936 | See Source »

...Denmark but Iceland's own royal flag of red, white & blue. This time King Christian had made a Slesvig - Holsten -Sonderborg -Glikksborg family party of it, bringing his retiring German Queen Alexandrine, his second son Prince Knud and Knud's cousin-wife Princess Caroline Mathilde. Chief greeter was Iceland's 35-year-old Premier Hermann Jonasson, who led his Icelandic sovereign to a round of dinners, automobile trips, state council meetings and the signing of six years' laws...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ICELAND: Family Party | 6/29/1936 | See Source »

...Chicago, George Gaw, Chicago's onetime official greeter of celebrities, sued Lake Erie Chemical Co. in vain for $100,000 damages for the loss of the middle finger on his right, greeting hand, when one of the company's tear gas fountain pens exploded in his hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 2, 1935 | 12/2/1935 | See Source »

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