Word: metting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...next story concerns Miss Rebecca West. The novelist had never met Lawrence and as she had a house not far from where he was stationed she sent him an invitation to tea. She received no reply, but about two weeks later Lawrence appeared on his motorcycle. As it happened Miss West was out and the visitor was received by a secretary of some kind. Undeterred by the lady's absence he ensconced himself in the library and for several hours lectured the secretary on his exploits in Arabia. At length he departed as abruptly as he had arrived...
...attended the Cleveland School of Art and then one day met the Norwegian painter Henrik Lund, who scorned orthodox artistic education and advised him to strike out for himself. Geddes began painting portraits of such people as Brand Whitlock, Mme. Schumann-Heink, Mme. Galli-Curci, Enrico Caruso, and a dozen others, but having a mother and younger brother to support (he was then 20 years old), he got a job in a Detroit Advertising agency. He was ousted when the president discovered that Mr. Geddes spent many office hours dictating dramas to the presidential private secretary...
...lack of complete understanding of a thing is a very good reason for opposing it. If Mr. Williams is true, it is not the fault of those who are ignorant, but of those who refuse to alleviate this ignorance, that the House plan, shrouded in suspicious darkness, has met with more opposition than the interview would lead one to believe. It was a serious mistake to acquaint undergraduates and graduates with such a momentous innovation by means of sensational rumors and fictitious scoops prompted by newspaper rivalry. It is not too late to instruct more thoroughly those interested...
...blood. For the first time since 1870 several cabinet ministers had officially entered St. Peter's. This was possible because the Papacy and the government of Italy had just patched up their 59-year-old feud by a treaty (TIME, Feb. 18); and now a papist host had met for joyful and pious celebration. "Il Papa! Il Papa!" shouted the throng, which had now increased to a full 200,000. "Il Papa Consolatore! Il Papa Consolatore...
Some of the country's more potent oilmen met at St. Louis, last week, to see what could be done about the overproduction, from which their industry has long been suffering (TIME, Dec. 17). Oklahoma operators agreed to cut production from 700,000 barrels a day to 650,000. Meanwhile, however, Texas and California oil fields continued on an unlimited production basis. Unless a national agreement covering all oil fields is reached it would appear that regional agreements can effect no major improvement. Present U. S. production is approximately 2,690,000 barrels a day and wildcatting (opening...