Word: metting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from the net as much as possible and simply wear him down. On the defense he is if anything faster than Cochet and his endurance is little short of marvelous. Whether he has magic touch which seems to characterize the Frenchman's play is not sure; he has not met enough worthy opposition; perhaps he would fall as other's have before the defense that is an offense, before the steady brillance and brilliant steadiness of the master of the amateur courts. BY TIME...
...current offering at the Metropolitan, "The Love Doctor", is neither worse nor better than the ordinary run of Met pictures which is the same as saying that it provides mild entertainment of a very agreeable sort. Richard Dix as the hero, let it be said at once, is not half as bad as he can be, and in fact usually...
...Charles W. Post of Postum and Toastie fame.* Hutton wealth is disbursed in gorgeous grandeur. Invited to the famed Manville-Bernadotte wedding in Pleasantville, N. Y., Mrs. Hutton drove to Grand Central in one of her six Rolls-Royces,* made the 28-mile trip in a private car, was met in Pleasantville by other Rolls-Royces she had sent ahead. On this occasion observers noted the private car did not carry an empty baggage car behind, usual Hutton caution against rear-end collisions...
...large room in a modest hotel on a Manhattan side street last week met a number of women and seven men. They sat at card-tables in groups of four. Of the women, who were between the ages of 25 and 55, some were dressed with the restraint of style that indicates expense and others had an air of neatly inadequate penury. But all were businesslike. Of the men, one caught first attention-a stoutish man in a pincenez, with a broad waistcoat crossed by a gold watch-chain, who spent most of his time standing beside a blackboard. This...
About 125 specialists met at Memphis, Tenn., last week to discuss obstetrics, gynecology and abdominal surgery...