Word: meets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sinclair, I've taken a lot of bets on your horses and I've made a lot more on my own, and I've always wanted to meet you, but I'm sorry it had to be in jail...
...songs ("On the Banks of the Wabash," "My Gal Sal"). Paul Dresser, not Theodore Dreiser, was the friend, not the brother, of Louise. He knew her at a time when he was selling candy on a train which ran through Indiana. Louise, nee Kerlin, came to the station to meet her father who was a conductor on the same train. Conductor Kerlin was killed in a railroad wreck; Louise brought up her younger brothers and sisters. Dresser's songs had had some success and he helped her to a job in vaudeville, let her use his name. Later...
...walls of his offices are crowded with autographed pictures of Congressmen, financiers, tycoons of one kind or another. A non-partisan in politics, he knows many a politician, spent much time on the long distance telephone during both the Kansas City and Houston nominating conventions. He does not, however, meet any of his friends on golf courses. Mr. Ungerleider never had a golf stick in his hand. And of this eccentricity he is extremely proud...
...scab" (strike-breaker), hated and despised by both his son and wife. When the scab's life was threatened the son was vindictive, exultant. But the wife's conscience, dependence and desire to humiliate the living man, conspired to prevent her from allowing the wretch to meet his fate...
Three Harvard Crews meet Yale this afternoon over the Henley and the mile and three quarters courses. The University 150-pound crew and the 1932 lightweights are scheduled to race at 5.30 and 4.30 o'clock respectively over the shorter distance, while the Blue and Crimson Sophomore class crews meet at 5 o'clock to row the full Basin distance...