Word: met
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most of all, I enjoy your personal glimpses. For instance, after reading your sketch of Mr. Volstead [TiME, March 29, NATIONAL AFFAIRS] I felt that I had met the man and learned just the things that I most wanted to know about...
...Rules Committee are measures embodying the Vice Presidential idea of cloture (limitation of debate) by majority vote. Scarcely a handful of Senators favor these proposals. Hence the Rules Committee would certainly turn them down. Hence, in order not to offend the Vice President, the Rules Committee has not met ? not once during the entire session...
...London, Sir John Lavery, famed portraitist, reported a successful visit to the U.S. where with businesslike speed and punctuality he had done 15 millionaires. He also reported that prohibition was practically unknown among the rich. Only four abstainers had he met. One was Vance C. Mc-Cormick, onetime (1916) Chairman of the Democratic National Committee...
...look upon the foolish and unlawful measures they are now taking as a hopeful sign for the strikers. Even with their leader Weisbord in jail, they have proved by their peaceful but firm adherence to the strike that they will never give in until their demands are met...
...Mississippi with its great side-wheelers and niggers and roustabouts and plenitude of suckers has produced its own school of chroniclers. By the works of its sons do we know it. And faro and monte are not unknown mysteries even in the modern and effete east; we have met the southern planter and the river boat gambler before, and still do we, their unworthy descendants, endeavor to fill on kings or bluff a bobtailed flush...