Word: met
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engaged. Helen Wills, 22, holder of U. S., English and French tennis championships, fair-to-middling painter; to Frederick Shander Moody Jr., 27, stock broker of San Francisco, fair-to-middling tennis player.* They first met at Cannes in 1926. Said Miss Wills last week: "I will play tennis as long as I can hold a racquet." The London Evening News talked to Miss Wills in Berkeley, Calif., over long distance telephone to get the story...
Plumbing, Heating. Plenipotentiaries from American Radiator Co. (biggest manufacturer of heating apparatus) met in a two-day conference last week with officers of Standard Sanitary Mfg. Co. (plumbing fixtures), to arrange consolidation into a $172,000,000 company...
...took a train for Franklin, La., Friday night. The ticket cost $6 and I had a little money left. I got hungry on the train and had to buy sandwiches, which were entirely too thin to satisfy me. Some one met me in a car and took me to the Criminal Court room. I was told I could sleep there...
...ancients were among them. Some said it was the Blessed Virgin, others that it was St. Anne herself. Skeptical experiments were made by extinguishing neighborhood street lights and lights within the church. The image persisted. Perhaps it was the filter of moonbeams through the trees. Each night the devout met and knelt before the door...
...Assomoir (1877) sold 100,000 copies. This drab vignette of lowly Parisian life rooted naturalism in the literary soil. Zola married an intelligent, passionate woman. He met weekly with Gustave Flaubert, Edmond de Goncourt, Alphonse Daudet, Ivan Turgeniev. He was famed, fat crammed with food. He worked incessantly ? news articles, plays, novels. His villa at Medan. outside Paris, grew in bulk and reputation. Its owner was excoriated, saluted, accused, defended. Madame Zola remained childless...