Word: met
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Queen Alexandra: "She met her marital problems with a cleverness that evoked the unwilling admiration of Europe. Repeatedly, although by nature she was one of the most exclusive of persons, she invited to Sandringham the very women with whose names his was associated. And she was at some pains to show these ladies manifestations of her good will in other and equally significant ways...
Maria del Pilar. In 1870 the Countess Muguiro gave birth to a child who became the only daughter and heiress of the exceedingly wealthy Spanish Count of that name. When she was 16, Maria del Pilar was married morganatically to Prince Francis de Bourbon. Almost simultaneously she met the enigmatic Zaharoff, who "has never made any man his friend, although he developed a fondness for Lloyd George during the War, and can very well endure Clemenceau...
...note was a copy of one which the Detroit Chief of Police had received that morning, scrawled in illegible Italian on a piece of brown paper. Policemen had met him at the station. Detectives, ranked around him, had escorted him to his hotel. Now they watched him curiously as he sat reading the epistle that might be his death warrant. He crumpled it in his pudgy fist...
...grim police sergeant, four detectives from the bomb squad, ten patrolmen swinging their shiny clubs, and a score of agitated friends met him in Manhattan. They escorted him through the Grand Central Terminal to his limousine, where a motorcycle corps took up the task of guarding his throat. Santa Lucia! If the Camorra wanted a man, they usually got him. And was Gigli, "the World's Greatest Tenor," to be sacrificed to the knife of some berserk Black Hander? So ran the talk in Gigli's apartment, where he was reunited to his wife and children...
...speaker added: "That, of course, is only my personal idea," but the trustees were so impressed that they met again in two months to hear the idea over again; and a fortnight ago when they met once more, they spread upon their minutes the following plan for modifying instruction in the Johns Hopkins college of liberal arts, as approved by the various faculties...