Word: met
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Thomas has a right to his opinions. I have met him in joint debate and replied to the false propaganda which fills his new play. His mistaken sincerity is unquestioned. But Mr. Thomas looks on America today with jaundiced eyes. He has forgotten the elemental themes of love, ambition and sorrow which make the world laugh and weep, and turned soap box orator for the outlawed brewer and distiller. It's a pity. The reputation of Playwright Thomas and that part of the American theater involved in propaganda which encourages lawlessness will both suffer...
First a fine assemblage of Chinese notables, all urging peace, met in the District Attorney's office. There was Ziang Ling Chang, the Chinese Consul, Lee Kee, President of the Chinese Benevolent Association, Leong du Ching, Chairman of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, Chu Man Sing, Secretary of the Four Brothers' Association, Professor Guy Main of Columbia, Ong Gong Yee, potentate of Chinese Freemasons, Lou You, head of the Chinese Citizens' Alliance. A most august assemblage-all urging peace in the good name of their country and their race...
That night Que Yee, a Hip Sing, was met by three pellets of steel as he walked upstairs in his house. He rolled to the bottom and died. Wong Hong, a young Hip Sing gunman, was entering his lodging house. A hatchet came down on his head from behind and his brains were crushed. They found a revolver lashed inside his vest...
Last week in Scarborough met delegates from nearly every land, at the International Trade Unionist Congress. The embers of British communism were well stirred...
People who believe in ghosts met last week in Paris-the International Spiritualist Congress. How to greet a ghost when you meet him, was one question that immediately arose. The French delegates said to say: "Welcome, friend." English folk present demurred, said to teach children so would be to frighten them of apparitions in advance...