Word: greets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Story. Young Felix Hunter is a person of invincible amiability. He would greet Lucifer himself with undiminished good humor. A large proportion of his early life appears to have been devoted to a demonstration of his affability in the face of continued reverses. No ray of light is shed upon his drab existence that is not promptly followed by compensating catastrophe. Each misfortune he welcomes with an apt witticism. It is said of him that he proceeds " triumphing from failure to failure." Many of his set-backs are in themselves inconsiderable. They form an overwhelming aggregate...
...During the summer despite the hundreds of eager students still in Cambridge, on learning or on pleasure bent, Harvard does not present its typical appearance. But with the return of September the Yard blooms in its Indian summer, the tutoring schools graduate their annual crop, and your conventional friends greet you with conventional phrases and inquiries about the summer...
...friends, who believe that, even if he has no advice for foreign lands, he may have some for his native country, have arranged a great banquet in his honor. It is to take place in Manhattan two days after the Senator returns. Many notables (not necessarily his partisans) will greet him there, among them Senator Moses of New Hampshire, Charles M. Schwab, Mayor Hylan of New York...
Gabriele d'Annunzio, poet airman, took a trip in an aeroplane over the Alps to Paris. The French were so excited that they sent 24 battle plans to greet him. Since then he is reported as having literally vanished into thin air. No trace of him can be discovered, although it is hoped that he has only had a forced landing in some remote place...
...formidable prospect, and only one defense can be suggested. The spell of the tropics must be played up to its full value. Ukuleles and guitars must be brought out in force to greet the conquering heroine; the weatherman must be prevailed upon to remind her of torrid suns, and perhaps that subtle nostalgia that worked on Ganguin. Stevenson, and the other South Seamen will call her back to Papua for peaceful sovereignty where she has already conquered...