Word: mets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Leaving the White House after a 45-minute conference with the President, Lucas glumly admitted: "This issue has to be met sooner or later." Democratic National Chairman J. Howard McGrath feared "the greatest marathon of all times" but promised: "We will fight it out to the bitter end, all summer and all winter if necessary." To his Rhode Island constituents, Senator McGrath declared: "Maybe you won't get all the housing or economic welfare you want. But if these things must wait upon human values then I say, 'Let them wait.'" This week the filibuster began. Georgia...
...dance in Athens in July 1946, young Ridgeway, now 29, met Liana Maria Kremezi. Liana was known as the "Maid of Athens" because of her Resistance exploits during the war. On Sept. 21, they decided to be married. He gave her a ring bearing his family crest and made plans for her to follow him to England...
...July 1947, Tom met Jane Clinton-Baker, daughter of Lady Rosa Agnes Clinton-Baker. On Aug. 20, Tom gave Liana further food for thought. "A month ago," he wrote in a letter, "I met another girl with whom I fell in love the moment I saw her." The Maid of Athens promptly flew to England. Tom met her. "How nice to see you, Liana," he said. Liana did not feel that cozy about it. She threatened to kill herself, she threatened to shoot him, and she finally wound up in a nursing home. Meanwhile, Tom Ridgeway married Jane Clinton-Baker...
Beniamino Gigli, 58, still one of the world's great tenors, who left the Met in 1939 ("I do not like America ... A general air of nervousness, cheapness and corruption") to go back to Fascist Italy, waited until 35 minutes before curtain time in London, then canceled a concert because of laryngitis. The crowd of 8,000 disappointed music lovers milled around the locked doors of Royal Albert Hall, jamming traffic for almost an hour before an extra force of bobbies could persuade them to go home...
This is the second time this season that the two teams have met. Last month, in a game in Philadelphia, Penn built up a huge half-time lead and then staved off a late Harvard rally...