Word: met
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What American poet so great, so heralded, so powerful that he can move huge audiences of very strong men to tears? What poet is it who is met at railroad trains by the town band? To whom politicians bow? Whose ditties sailors carry in their packets? Whom baseball players revere ? Before whom prizefighters are as little children? "We have no Homer, minstrelling through the land," you reply. Ah, but we have our Eddie Guest, and he cannot be denied...
...BEACHCOMBER IN THE ORIENT-Harry L. Foster-Dodd, Mead ($3.00). The Beachcomber's wanderings take him through Borneo, Siam, French Indo-China, Japan, the Malay States, the Philippines, under freight cars, and among types seldom met at first-hand in the pages of books. The volume is illustrated...
...mass meeting was held in Carnegie Hall, Manhattan, on Monday, at which the speakers were General John F. O'Ryan (Catholic) and Dr. Harry E. Fosdick (Baptist). Before the meeting 600 clergymen met in a nearby church. Two thousand similar meetings were held in various parts of the country...
After a test flight in a Curtiss single-seater pursuit airplane at Mineola, Brigadier General William Mitchell, Assistant Chief of Air Service, met with an accident on landing which might have had serious consequences. The landing gear or undercarriage of the plane struck a rut and broke; the machine did not overturn, however, and the General, with the promptness of a cavalryman, released his safety belt and jumped out, escaping with a severe shaking...
...number of graduates and undergraduates of Oxford University have formed a committee for the purpose of inviting twelve German students to come to Oxford during the Summer Term. Due to the rate of exchange, their expenses would have to be met by their hosts. The Reverend Merry, rector of the city church, protested against the proposal in a sermon, alleging that it "shocked and disgusted...