Word: met
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Airplanes swooped, sirens screamed, salutes boomed out, the Repulse steamed into Portsmouth. There Edward was met by two of his brothers, the Duke of York and Prince Henry, whom he greeted with a cheerful "Hullo, fellows!" and by "notables" whom he would have dodged if he could. Came a train whose engine bore the triple cockade of Wales, and whisked him Londonwards...
...Victoria Station he was met by the King, the Queen, the Duke of Connaught, Princess Mary, Viscount Lascelles and the Duchess of York. Behind them waited Premier Baldwin and most of his Cabinet, the Lord Mayor of London and many another...
Commented The Spectator, famed conservative weekly review: We suggest that when the Prince has had the rest which he richly deserves ... he might strike a balance between dignified isolation and the 'hail-fellow-well-met attitude' by attaching himself to some public cause . . . [and] by the regular application of his energies put an end to any false notion that he desires to live a butterfly existence...
Once, with the Marquis of Queensbury and Lord de Clifford as judges, before a crowd that had torn down the side doors of the Royal Aquarium to get a look at him, Sandow met Samson. Samson began by bending an iron bar over arms, calf and neck. Sandow copied him. Next Samson burst a wire cable wound around his chest. Sandow burst its fellow. Samson snapped a chain on the muscles of his arm. The chain was too small for Sandow. He called for his big dumbbell. The greatest moment of his life had come...
...famed is Halfback Eddie Tryon, the hardest blob in Colgate's tube, but he met his match?and who would it be but Dinty Moore, red-haired Lafayette quarterback? Once Dinty Moore intercepted a Tryon pass that would have meant a touchdown, and ran it back to midfield; over and over he gained. Score: Colgate 7; Lafayette...