Word: greets
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...Greet your hostess and say: "How do you do, oh, isn't that cute?"-thus calling attention to some bit of novelty jewelry she is certain to be wearing. If she is clad in a bathing suit, say: "How do you do, aren't you lovely?" Plain "How do you do?" won't do. It's considered rude...
Governor Herbert R. O'Connor, of Maryland, and Mayor Howard W. Jackson, of Baltimore, will officially greet the Harvard alumni at the opening luncheon tomorrow afternoon in the Lord Baltimore Hotel...
Bright & early next morning Corfiotes heard the familiar drone of planes, saw a squadron of 100 circling over the skeletons of their gutted Byzantine churches and the grey bulk of the old Venetian fortress. To greet its captors, the city broke out a swastika flag. Then a seaplane landed and out stepped ten Italian officers, two Italian journalists. While other planes wheeled menacingly overhead, they came ashore, claimed the island for Italy...
...sure," said one, "that there is a plan; also that the German Army doesn't rush into adventures, a policy which eliminates to the greatest degree humanly possible any chance of failure." The plan was perhaps to wait until British troops were evacuating Greece, then try to greet them in Alexandria. But plan or no plan, the week's developments pointed up the Libyan campaign as definitely more important to Britain now than the outcome in the Balkans...
...movements of stout, well-fed Baron Edmund von Thermann. German Ambassador to Argentina. But last fortnight he gave them the slip. He suddenly turned up in Santiago, Chile. Even the Chilean Foreign Office was caught off base; it barely had time to get an official to the airport to greet the Ambassador. Baron von Thermann blandly explained that he was traveling unofficially, was on his way to the Chilean lake country for a vacation. He carried a very heavy suitcase...