Word: rendezvouses
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Meantime, wondering what fates were befalling their husbands, the great hunter's daughters-in-law, Mrs. Theodore Jr. and Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt, distributed their eight children among three grandmothers, and set sail for Europe, whence by ship, rail and motor and with a special guide they will follow their...
Were such salaries paid, many men of intellect now preoccupied with the details of business, law or war, could withdraw from active life and lend their minds, unharassed, to the service of human thought-men like Elihu Root, John Hay, Admiral Mahan, Steinmetz. Scholarship would come into its heritage; universities...
Pith-helmeted Britishers, suckled on the strong wine of an imperial tradition, reared to carry a white man's burden without stooping, made rendezvous at their Hongkong clubs, waited the word of command. A cruiser, a team of gunboats, coaled up in the harbor.
The rendezvous was Poland Springs, Me., the gathering the 17th annual meeting of the conference of Governors. There was, for the first time in 17 meetings, a woman member-Governess Nellie T. Ross of Wyoming. There was also the son of Mrs. Ross, a lad of 10, of whom Governor...
"If the police cannot arrest the drunken thug, if they will not stop the plot before it is carried out, we had better form vigilance bodies and save the expense of the whole police machinery. Three times in a public place (restaurants) attacked and abused by vile language is making...