Word: meta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Armchair. The man in tweeds did not confine his operations to the young. He captivated Meta Berger, well-to-do widow of Victor Berger, first Socialist Congressman. Plump, motherly, highly respected Mrs. Berger was entranced by the eloquence of handsome, charming Eugene Dennis. He persuaded her to go to Russia, and she returned piping the glories of the Soviet Union. Her country home became a second home for Dennis, who settled comfortably into the late Congressman Berger's old armchair. Meta Berger died in 1944, still not disabused...
...Treatment. In Milwaukee, Landlady Meta Seegar lost her eviction suit against Tenant Oscar Maas, who had annoyed her right into court with his persistent silence...
...Kyoto. But from the moment he first spied her picture outside the Ono-Tei teahouse, George D. Morgan (son of J. P. Sr.'s sister Sarah and a distant cousin, George Hale Morgan) thought more & more of fragile, fragrant O-Yuki and less & less of a frosty Miss Meta Mackay, who had broken her engagement to him back in the States...
Final Round. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Meta Drinkwine sued husband Elmer for a divorce, complained that he "drank excessively...
...Miss Meta Smith of Abbeville, South Carolina, who is substituting this week for Mrs. Marion S. Hambleton, the regular House Secretary, was taken completely by surprise when she reported for work at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. "Are they putting in a new floor? I have lots of work to do," was her first reaction...