Word: met
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...until all the chairs at the Directors' table were full except one-the one ostentatiously left vacant by Viscount St. Davids. As the room quieted to a deadly hush, Baron Kylsant glanced sharply at the vacant chair, frowned, then swept the room with penetrating gaze until his eyes met those of Viscount St. Davids. Tycoon glared at tycoon, brother at brother. The seconds felt like hours. Then Baron Kylsant nodded sharply, pointed imperatively to the empty chair. Neither brother spoke. They are not on speaking terms. But Tycoon Kylsant's victory seemed perfect and complete when Tycoon...
...diplomatist! ... As I know my own business best, I am going to try and do it in my own way. . . . Nobody needs to explain to me how to get along with the English! I have met a lot of unsolicited advice about that, but I resent advice about how to get along with the English. ... I have got something to say! What we want is a pact of complete friendship and trust [between Britain and the U. S.]. That is what I am trying to bring about...
...years the organization would have "one woman Cabinet member ... 25 members of Congress . . . Governors of five states . . . five ordained ministers." Louis Edwin Van Norman, chief business specialist of the U. S. Department of Commerce, declared that sex appeal is no longer a business asset, counseled gravely that Prince Charmings met in the business world "may not be charming. . . may marry another woman . . . may die." Ladylike laughter greeted the report of the educational committee. Over $155,000 had been disbursed during the year. Beneficiaries were 1,000 children-999 girls...
...Bishop of Utah and a specially appointed Commission of the House of Bishops met in a house in Vandeventer Place, St. Louis. Outside moaned the wind, snow flurried in the streets. The Commission sat alone. Bishop Jones was in an-other room but the Commission knew they might speak to him "whenever occasion demanded." They wrote answers to a series of questions which Bishop Jones, silent in the other room, had submitted to them...
Sharp for the past several months has been antagonism between two Bishops who at last week's convocation inevitably met. One of these is the Rt. Rev. Ernest William Barnes, "liberal" Bishop of Birmingham, the other is the Rt. Rev. Michael Bolton Furse, Bishop of St. Albans, stormy conservative. Said Bishop Furse when he saw Bishop Barnes: ". . . He claims liberty for himself and others in freedom of belief and refuses to allow that freedom of belief to be expressed in certain ways by us who, he says, made concessions to religious barbarisms." Interjected the Most Rev. Cosmo Gordon Lang...