Word: met
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...series for The New Yorker, Manhattan smartchart, later bound as Hearst, An American Phenomenon. Author Winkler left the newsgathering business five years ago but still sleeps by day, works or plays by night. Closely related to a Baptist minister, it is perhaps through this connection that he met his latest subject. Or perhaps he golfed with Rockefeller cronies, kept record of their reminiscences. Those parts of the biography in which the subject lives and breathes, the publishers darkly attribute to sources "confidential and unimpeachable...
...votes were cast. Elected on the first ballot he was immediately notified of the results. Ten minutes later his acceptance was announced to the press. It appeared to most observers that the potentates of the Pennsylvania diocese had made sure in advance, this time, that they would not be met with refusal. There was virtually no debate before the election. Dr. Louis C. Washburn, rector of Old Christ Church, Philadelphia, and nominator of Dr. Taitt, mentioned a letter circulated among deputies to the convention. Bishop Garland interrupted: "There must be no references to letters, to caucuses held by laity...
...leader of the gang was Sam Vettori. Fat and cunning, Sam owned the spaghetti joint over which the gang met. Rico's cop-murder alarmed Sam. Conservative, Sam protested: "Love of God, didn't I tell you no gunwork?" Rico retaliated by reducing Sam's share of the spoils. Sam acknowledged defeat graciously. Reason: the gang's best guns were behind ruthless Rico. So Rico rose to leadership of the gang...
...Honor and kissed him on both cheeks. The ceremony was performed before the assembled military. In Berlin, posing as Prince Adalbert, third son of the onetime Kaiser, he obtained 100,000 marks from a diamond merchant. In Holland he appeared as Canon Charles Dixon of India, whom he had met, and collected a chapel building fund; for India's heathen. In Rome he was honored as a Cardinal's relative. At gay Biarritz he was the son of Poet Maurice Maeterlinck. With graces and fantasies almost super-Maeterlinckian he solicited $25,000 to erect a statue...
...Within a month she could defeat her father. Four years later, when she was 15, she won the U. S. junior singles champion ship. Before she was 17 she drove back the shots of burly Molla Bjurstedt Mallory and became champion of the U. S. Two years later she met her most glorious defeat at Cannes at the hands of swarthy, turbaned Suzanne Lenglen, most graceful of women tennis players, now a professional. Followed a Paris operation for appendicitis and the Wills tennis for a while was slowed. Now she again leads all women players...