Word: met
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pushed to the limit by Crispin Cooke '32, who won the first round easily by fast rushing. Mooney gained as the match went on, however, had Cooke dizzy in the second period and edged him out with hard blows in the final round. In the 145-pound group, Burns met stiff oppositions in W. P. Wadsworth '29 and won only by tiring him with heavy body shots...
When Thomas and Light met later in the evening to decide the title, both were tired from their first fights. Thomas gave a fine display of headwork by clinching and tieing up light's dangerous right; but the latter broke free often enough to land telling blows, and in the third round overwhelmed Thomas with driving punches...
...with the grizzled "Lion of Lorraine," M. Raymond Poincaré−now Prime Minister−who was President of France during the war. At the triumphal French entry into Strassburg in 1918, the Lion and the Tiger formally embraced each other, but it is said that they have never met or spoken since. Last week a personal autograph letter was sent by M. Poincaré to M. Clemenceau, inviting him in the name of the French Government to attend the funeral of Marshal Foch; but Le Tiger replied to Le Lion that he had already taken leave of Le Patron...
Royal was the welcome extended to Royal Belgians last week in Manhattan. Prince Albert de Ligne and his Ambassadorial staff met them at the pier, took them to City Hall where Mayor James J. Walker had grateful remarks ready for all Belgium. Royally did it respond at its concert for the benefit of the Reconstruction Hospital, playing symphonic music according to the arrangements of Leader Arthur Prevost with skill and spirit well calculated to rival the bands of John Philip Sousa and the U.S. Marines, or even the historic German Band which attended Chicago's World's Fair...
...recent issues the revered Atlantic Monthly published three articles on the life of Abraham Lincoln by a Miss Wilma Frances Minor, based upon hitherto unknown Lincolniana in the possession of Miss Minor. The first article was met with a storm of criticism from Lincoln experts, who cried "Forgery!" after reading the documents quoted by Miss Minor. The second article brought still more protests fluttering to the desk of Editor Ellery Sedgwick. Editor Sedgwick, digesting the criticisms and keeping an open mind, published the third and last article. Most vehement among the critics of the Minor collection was Paul M. Angle...