Word: greeting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Citizen Coolidge arrived at the Union Station at 7 a.m. President Hoover sent his secretary, George Akerson, to greet him. They drove to the Willard Hotel, Citizen Coolidge did not register. He shook hands with his old friend Mack Vogel, elevator operator. On the third floor he entered suite No. 328, the one with light blue and gold decorations, which he had occupied free of cost as Vice President. Here he breakfasted with his one-time secretaries and bodyguards. Afterward came callers?Senator Smoot, Secretary of Labor Davis, Tariff Commission Chairman Marvin, Federal Farm Board Chairman Legge, many another. They...
Helen Wills defeated her California neighbor and acquaintance, Helen Jacobs, 6-1, 6-2. Fifteen thousand people watched Miss Jacobs rush about the court, applauded with chilling politeness her brilliant recoveries. With no more enthusiasm did they greet the cold, feline accuracy of the Wills game. Helen Wills knows that the best Jacobs shot is a cross-court backhand. Rarely was Helen Jacobs able to use it. There was no drama as once there had been when Miss Wills, winning, was suddenly unnerved, defeated by the swarthy Suzanne Lenglen, who found new strength and boldness by drinking a glass...
When Henry Ford went to Manhattan last week to greet Son Edsel Ford, and his family, arriving from Europe on the Berengaria, a bottle of flashlight powder exploded close by the pier, injured nine persons. No Ford was hurt...
Thus did Charles Gates Dawes, new-fledged Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, shrewd, Rooseveltian master of the art of self-projection, greet the British nation last week. The international air had suddenly become filled with clouds of incense and Anglo-American goodwill. Prime Minister MacDonald was planning to go and talk with President Hoover about naval disarmament. Astute Mr. Dawes made it clear that he would try to keep beatific sentiment from cloying by playing his role of hustling, plainspoken, rough-diamond American...
With the latest Mexican revolution successfully quashed, Secretary of War General Plutarco Elias Calles returned in triumph to the arms of his President and the streets of his capital. Waiting on the Mexico City railway platform to greet him was President Emilio Portes Gil, three brass bands, 25 Mexican generals...