Word: greets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with a feeling akin to sadness that the same readers now grown to manhood, greet the announcement that the Women's Christian Temperance Union has taken these self-same rimes and jingles and converted them into Prohibition propaganda. But the old order changeth and Progress is an exemplary ambition. Perhaps Mother Goose willingly aids and abets the Noble Experiment. Forsaking her eternal kingdom she will be seen in the night air stealthily aeroplaning--of course her broomstick is antiquated--hither and yon disseminating the evils of drink. Yes, the Eighteenth Amendment is an honorable thing and even Mother Goose should...
...every scene closes with a subtle gesture that completely wins the audience. At the juncture at which the Twentieth century Peter Standish arrives, the stage is darkened, the door opens and a shaft of light reveals the very beautiful Kate Pettigrew, Louise Pressing, sweeping into a superb curtsie to greet her betrothed just as the curtain falls. It is a succession of moments like this that makes "Berkeley Square" so thoroughly entertaining...
...from Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, to Tresco, one of the Scilly islands, 25 mi. off Cornwall, England. Theirs was the fifth heavier-than-air crossing this year, the 26th in history. They spent the night in that Arthurian Land of Lyonnesse, then continued to Croyden, their real destination. First to greet them there was Charles A. Levine, passenger on the Columbia when Clarence Chamberlin flew her across the ocean (TIME, June 13, 1927). Mr. Levine's comment: "[Boyd and Connor] took an awful chance...
...Again, Hawks. By moonlight, Capt. Frank Monroe Hawks's red-&-white Travel Air Texaco 13 whizzed off the runway of Glendale Airport, Los Angeles, last week, hurdled the San Bernardino mountains, shot across the Mojave Desert to greet the rising sun, roared into Albuquerque in 3 hr. 26 min. The speed indicator clung close to 250 m.p.h. as the low-winged bullet tore eastward to Wichita. Next came a mid-afternoon stop at Indianapolis and then, three hours later, Curtiss Airport, Valley Stream L. I.-a new transcontinental record...
...Began to greet their colleague, the onetime British Ambassador to the U. S. by his new title, announced in the Official Gazette last week: "Baron Howard of Penrith and of Gowbarrow in the County of Cumberland...