Word: met
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Berlin, antic mechanicals of the Saddlers' Trade Union met and reinstalled Friedrich Ebert as a member of their fraternity. It mattered not to them that Germany's first President is long since dead (TIME, March 9, 1925). Still less were they mindful of his exceedingly pat remark: "It is as absurd to call me 'the Saddlemaker-President' as to call a great commander 'Sergeant-Fieldmarshal' because he once held the lower rank...
Appeal. Since this quite extraordinary man still lives, residing quietly at the Chateau de Choigny near Paris, it was not surprising that the Russian Congress of Emigrés which met at Paris last week should have chosen him as their expatriated Tsar...
...Meanwhile the cause of all the comment had packed up and, with Mother Talley, started on her first professional concert tour. She went to Hartford, Conn., was met at the train by a delegation of prominent Hartfordians, was escorted to the City Hall, where Mayor Norman C. Stevens presented her with the keys of the city...
...Dodgers" (Brooklyn) play the " Giants" (New York) ; the " Braves" (Boston) play the " Phillies" (Philadelphia) ; the " Pirates" (Pittsburgh) play the " Cardinals" (St. Louis); the " Cubs" (Chicago) play the " Those, as even the younger generation knows, are the National Leaguers. In the American League, the " Yankees" (New York) met the " Red Sox" (Boston); the " Athletics" (Philadelphia) met the " Senators" (Washington) ; the " Indians" (Cleveland) met the " Tygers" (Detroit); and the " Browns" (St. Louis) met the White Sox" (Chicago...
...Charles Higham, rich British British advertising expert, arrived in Manhattan last week in the interests of the India Tea Growers to stimulate tea-drinking in the U.S. To the ship reporter who met him, he amiably talked about painting, discussed the work of Alfred E. Orr, young U.S. painter, whom he financed. "Orr looks like a greater man than Rembrandt," Sir Charles remarked; said that he had rented for the painter the studio of the late John Singer Sargent, No. 31 Tite Street, Chelsea; told how Mr. Orr derived the inspiration for his greatest masterpiece, a painting of "the typical...