Word: met
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Church, South, arch-enemy of the Smith-Raskob leadership. In a public letter a few weeks before he had summoned it to overthrow the Byrd-Glass-Swanson organization which had supported Nominee Smith and was "defeated, discredited . . . still unwashed and still unrepentant." When Hoovercratic Virginians obeyed the call and met at Roanoke, Bishop Cannon sent them his son David, a 6,000-word platform, a special message and his blessing. But he stayed away himself...
Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone, Chicago gangman now jailed for one year in Philadelphia, once met Charles B. Cochrane, famed London theatre man. Last week in London Manager Cochrane said: "I asked Capone if he were going to see a certain musical show. He replied that he never went to musical shows and that his favorite dramatists are George Bernard Shaw, Noel Coward and Shakespeare...
John Dawson, chubby-cheeked 26-year-old Chicagoan, played the best U. S. golf and until the semifinals, where he met and was defeated by Scottish Golfer John Norton Smith, seemed likely to win the cup. The Dawson golf, like the Dawson face, resembles that of Robert Tyre Jones Jr. Golfer Dawson has learned a wisdom few able amateurs achieve: to prefer a safe four to a perilous three. But Golfer Dawson was troubled less last week by fours than by fives, sixes, and once a seven. Nevertheless during the last nine of the semi-finals he found himself...
...last Chicago's World Fair (1893) the first convention of women's music clubs was assembled through the efforts of Mrs. Theodore Thomas, wife of the conductor. Four years later, inspired by this start, six women met in New York City, laid the foundation of the now national Federation of Music Clubs. In Boston last week this Federation held its 16th biennial convention with 3,000 delegates representing clubs in every State and also Alaska, Hawaii. Programs featured all branches of musical activity, every musical phase of civic, social, home, school, church life. Practical assistance...
ANGELS AND EARTHLY CREATURES- Elinor Wylie-Knopf ($2.50). According to her publishers, Elinor Wylie arranged for publication this slim volume of tristful poems on the day, last December, before she met her sudden death from a paralytic stroke (TiME, Dec. 24). She had found the title in John Donne: "But, because Angels could not propagate, nor make more Angels, he enlarged his love in making man, that so he might enjoy all natures at once, and have the nature of Angels, and the nature of earthly Creatures, in one Person...