Word: met
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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News finally leaked from Gardone, where the estate of the aesthetic, erratic, eremitic Gabriele d'Annunzio (officially, il Principe di Monte Nevoso - Prince of the Snowy Mountain) is situate. It appeared that the Premier had gone on a visit to d'Annunzio, that, when they met, they had fallen upon each other's necks, kissed. D'Annunzio is reported to have exclaimed: "A new era begins!" And Mussolini was stated to have replied: "Even this hour has at last come to pass...
Friedmann, who seems not to have been connected with the plot, but who certainly knew of it and made no attempt to warn the authorities, alone met his fate with resolution. To the last, he declared his innocence, stated that he was being hanged because he was a Communist conspirator...
...Met the taxi-drivers guild, "The Federation of Operating Associations," which represents 8,000 cab-operators. Reports were recited of how cabmen, roused to fury by the cards, conversed in doorways, gathered in angry knots near every cabstand questioning the legality of the order, searching the Police Commissioner's legal right to force citizens to suggest to every comer what they might be. These cabmen, said reports, were pointing out that if every person were compelled to wear a placard proclaiming what he might be, college presidents, holy fathers, merchants, doctors and respected burghers would go about, perforce, with...
Engaged. Lady Alexandra Naldera Curzon, 21, youngest daughter of the late Lord Curzon, onetime (1899-1905) Viceroy of India, and his first wife, Mary Leiter of Washington, D. C., to Major Edward Dudley Metcalfe, equerry of Edward of Wales. Major Metcalfe first met Wales when the latter was touring India in 1922. Edward, impressed with Metcalfe's knowledge of horses, insisted on his becoming a member of his personal staff...
...better to marry a crossing sweeper than not to marry at all," said Countess Flor di Folio to Serena Blandish when, struck by the girl's beauty, poverty and discretion, she made her a member of her household and launched her upon her desperate enterprise. She met many men who made proposals to her but not of the kind she wanted to hear. For, although Serena was so beautiful that no man could resist her, such was her docility that she could not resist any man. Many seduced, but only the butler befriended her. When, at last, she drove...