Word: met
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Maine, famed national political bellwether, last week chose, without instructing, its 15 delegates to the Republican convention. The 15 met straightway and telegraphed their support, "loyal," "unswerving," to Candidate Hoover...
...Washington last week Secretary Kellogg dourly intimated that all the French reservations could not be met, but added with an air of quiet determination that the State Department would proceed with the negotiations in a patient and conciliatory spirit...
...Hair. Raging cutely, Clara Bow, famed exponent of "It," pulled off gold-dug clothes, jumped into a lily pond, and rose to the surface with only a lily in her red hair. She was an amorous manicurist, clipping three elderly clients for clothes until she met the nephew of one, whereupon in a burst of reform and shame she took the climactic pond plunge. Elinor Glyn devised the diverting asininity...
...meet. At this time a number of the men signed up for discussion groups and social service work. Two groups have been active throughout the year. The economics group, led by J. H. Sheldon 1G, chairman, has been particularly interested in problems of international policy. The religious discussion group met under the leadership of C. W. Lowry ETS, Chairman. The usual dances with the Graduate School of Radcliffe were held, one in the fall and one in the spring. The average attendance at these dances was about 200. Providing a social occasion for graduate students, they have made possible...
...forty years old, he decided to revisit England. . . ." Arriving there, he proceeded immediately to have an attack of influenza, during the course of which he stalked angrily about the town of London, frightening children with his dark and troubled eyes. Then, in May, he went to Gravelow and met the Huntings, Allegra and Penserosa, daughters, and Clara, their mother. These provided him with a momentary haven from the assaults of a world which he could not completely fathom, and which, by 1833 no longer admired his wise fancies & eccentric conceits as it had done before his belligerent sojourn in Greece...