Word: greets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paulina Longworth, aged eight weeks, drove to the White House with Mrs. Medill McCormick, who called on Mrs. Coolidge. She cooed when Secretary Sanders came out to greet...
...privilege to greet you on behalf of the women of California on this day of the inauguration of your illustrious husband as President of the United States. These flowers are sent that the First Lady of the Land may know the warm esteem in which she is held by California women." Thus was inscribed a "thermos box" of roses, jonquils, carnations, Japanese flowering quince sent by refrigerator car from San Francisco to be worn by Mrs. Coolidge on the great...
Born. To John F. A. Cecil and Mrs. Cecil (Cornelia Vanderbilt), a son, George Henry Vanderbilt (eight and one-half pounds); in Asheville, N. C. Children of tenants of Biltmore House (Mrs. Cecil's estate) gathered in English fashion to greet the hear, presented him with a toy stork, a woolly...
...Manhattan, an audience assembled to bid farewell to Igor Stravinsky, famed Russian composer, to greet Willem Mengelberg, Dutch conductor. Mengelberg, having ended his season last year with Tschaikowsky's 1812 Overture and the Nutcracker Suite, began his new season with the same pieces in the manner of a man who, interrupted, sternly repeats himself. The overture which Tschaikowsky composed to celebrate the repulse of the Napoleonic invasion of Russia, scoring it for such instrumental auxiliaries as a brass band, church bells, cannon shot and the like, was rousingly rendered by the New York Philharmonic. At the climax, a brass...
...authors could call forth such an aggregation of literary ladies and gentlemen as greeted Sherwood Anderson recently in Manhattan. The editor of The Dial was seen hobnobbing with the editor of The Saturday Rveiew, Louis Untermeyer, William Rose Benét, Floyd Dell and Louis Bromfield found themselves at the same table. Yet of all the unusual happenings of an unusual gathering, perhaps the most appealing to the sense of incongruity was the meeting (they did not actually meet) of H. L. Mencken and Stuart Pratt Sherman. These pen-enemies were in the same room, guests of the same host...