Word: met
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this nice lady who writes so charmingly, so naively of the little girl of Vermont? Her name was Lou Henry when she romped among orange blossoms of Monterey, Calif. Later when a lovely coed, she met an earnest young man who was working his way through Stanford University. They were married, and her name became Mrs. Herbert Clark Hoover. She followed her husband to the ends of the earth. In China, in 1900, they lived for six weeks behind a barricade of sugar barrels and sandbags (Boxer Rebellion). Together they translated from medieval Latin the first work ever written...
...Rosa Ponselle, who came up from vaudeville, finished a $2,000 concert in Boston, met a reporter...
...afternoon last week the friends met in Philosopher Buermeyer's apartment and settled themselves to drink a bottle of grain alcohol. They mixed the fiery fluid with water, pursued recondite subjects. With each drink, a more hysterical note crept into Joseph Carson's voice. Jealousy gnawed. To shake it off, he blurted bitter taunts, taunts so childish that Prof. Buermeyer brushed them easily aside until he was bored, then dropped his woozy head and fell asleep. Infuriated, Philosopher Carson shouted at him to sit up and talk philosophy. The alcohol inflaming one mind had, however, quite numbed...
...Fordham, H. G. G. Herklots, and A. L. Hutchinson, the three members of the Cambridge University debating team that will face the University speakers on the platform at Symphony Hall tomorrow evening, will arrive at the North Station at 4.30 o'clock this afternoon. They will be met by the University team, and will be escorted to the Harvard Club on Commonwealth Avenue, which is to be their headquarters during their stay in Boston...
...nineties was, "Can any outfit stop the Pennsylvania 'guards back'?" And the sons of the same pessimistic gentlemen who offered to eat the first steamboat that ever crossed the Atlantic invariably answered, "It can't be done!" In other words, the general verdict was that when an irresistible force met an immovable object, the object stopped being immovable, and that was doubtless a part of Mr. Woodruff's philosophy when he engineered the inception of the smashing drive that no line seemed able to withstand...