Word: met
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hotel to St. James's. Scarlet-coated footmen were on the box, Ambassador Sokolnikov, trying to look proletarian under his silk hat, sat inside with Major-General Sir John Hanbury-Williams, diplomatic corps marshal. In the Ambassadors' Court at St. James's Palace, the Reds were met by four of the King's marshalmen in peaked caps and Elizabethan costumes (resembling a cross between the Jack of Hearts and a master of hounds), and Mr. J. B. Monk of the Foreign Office. Sir John Hanbury-Williams led the party to the throne room where Edward...
...lords opposed to his regime (TIME, Oct. 14, et seq). Whewed he: "The recent upheaval against our Government was the greatest yet experienced. Our fate hung by a single hair. What was this hair? The loyalty and bravery of our officers and men, whose courage never faltered! Again they met the flood and carried us to firm ground." (Floods are the most frequent catastrophe in China, others scarcely less frequent being droughts and plagues...
...met the General at a banquet in Texas ten years ago," said Printer Crawford, "and for the next three or four years I spent a few days every year with him at Juarez where he was a corps commander. He fled from Mexico when Federalist troops were trying to put him in front of a firing squad. Right now he is the most peaceful-minded man in the United States. He has put away his sword and his pistol and is looking for business opportunities-possibly in Chicago. He left my house this morning...
Roman travelers in the century after Christ would return to Rome with stories of naked hermits met in far, desert places, whose repeated word was the strange word which eventually worried Rome into believing it: "God is love...
...professorship, Mr. French felt that he must decline the school's offer. He went to the English department, forthrightly asked if he was to receive the position. As forthrightly the English board met, voted unfavorably four to three. Their fancy fell upon Assistant Professor Frederick Albert Pottle of the Graduate School, a mighty young authority on Johnsoniana...