Frank Sinatra (a well-placed friend if you happened to be interested in making the acquaintance of compliant young actresses) responds to a reporter's query at the entrance to a pre-inaugural party by snapping, "Where are you from?
He in fact dropped the acquaintance of Alice Liddell when she was 12, as he did with most of his young friends.
Gibbon left England on Jan . 25 , 1763and spent some time in Paris, making the acquaintance of several Philosophes, Denis Diderot and Jean Le Rond d'Alembert among others.
Meanwhile, at the Louvre he copied paintings by Titian and Diego Velázquez and in 1857 made the acquaintance of the artist Henri Fantin-Latour, who was later to paint Manet's portrait.
Barely two pages farther on, the same story relates how, later, Ambros, while working as a room service waiter at the Savoy in London, made the acquaintance of a lady from Shanghai, about whom, however, Aunt Fini knows only that she had a taste for brown kid gloves and that, as Ambros once noted, she marked the beginning of his Trauerlaufbahn [career in mourning].
In the summer of 1964 Chamberlain, one of the prominent participants at the famed Rucker Park basketball court in New York City, made the acquaintance of a tall, talented 17-year old teenager who played there.
In 1857 in Paris, he made the acquaintance of fellow Dane Harald Scharff, a handsome and highly regarded young ballet dancer with Copenhagen's Royal Theatre.
While on holiday in France I made the acquaintance of Tony McNulty, then quite a power in the Labour Party, he told me he would look into it.
In the 1950s he had made the acquaintance of Josephine Baker in Paris, a relationship that deepened significantly in Berlin.
In 1768 Boulton made the acquaintance of James Watt.
