Word: metting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Surpriges du Divorce" was first produced at the Theatre du Vaudeville in Paris where it met with considerable success. In 1912 it was given by the Cercle Francaise and in consideration of its reception then and its general excellence as a comedy they are planning to give-it again. The play is in three acts and calls for 11 characters, six male and five female. Monsieur Perrin will again direct the production A very modern theme runs throughout and, as the last line says, as a comedy it is a real "bolte a surpriges" The complicated matrimonial connections...
...Worcester has divided the class into three sections, meeting in Emerson D at 2 o'clock Wednesdays, Thursday, and Fridays, whereas hitherto the entire body of Freshmen has met in one group...
Naturally, under these conditions, a simple announcement of President Ferrand of Connell, that lack of sleep is one of the growing evils of the American undergraduate, met with but a cold reception. Yet there is evidence in plenty to support his statement. Anyone who has ever had a nine o'clock class is familiar with the sleeping six and the half dozen late. The well lighted windows of the Business School, and even of the Freshman Halls, tell to any late traveller by the Charles a story sufficiently convincing. Perhaps Dr. Ferrand did not refer to this sort of undergraduate...
...from expressing pleasure and gratitude at a prospective saving of $5.000.000, Postmaster Harry Stewart New found that no bids met the U. S. specifications, rejected both International Envelope and Middle West Supply. The slashings and guessing contest began again. Middle West Supply sliced its figure most, about $2,500,000. But with a $500,000 handicap, International Envelope could slash" $2,100,000 and win by its narrow margin of $100,000. Postmaster New had saved millions...
...meet the demand. We have hounded the editors for the precious little volume, but it looks like another miscalculation of publication values. We have turned away 30 or 40 people this afternoon who refused to believe that just another first edition had become history. Many more copies could have met a ready reception from Harvard...