"Namaste," Santa said, greeting 7-year-old Chandi Kaushari and her two younger sisters in Hindi.
Entries for Oct. 10, 1998, included: (1) "no greeting"; (2) "speaking loudly on the phone on the street late a night;" (9) "messy disposal of garbage".
The mood was relaxed, with Obama quietly greeting 6-foot-7 C. C. Sabathia with a "How are you doing, big man?" and Yankees Manager Joe Girardi handing Obama a No. 27 Yankees jersey autographed by the team.
Carey Mulligan, the actress who, as a co-chairwoman, stood in a receiving line greeting 800 guests, seemed to enjoy the attention paid to her dress, a stiff gold halter made of shiny gold paillettes, also by Prada.
"When I was greeting 900 kids in the morning, I could recognize them, but I might not be able to remember their name," said Sudo, who recently moved to Aone after being vice principal at a much bigger school.
On a balmy spring day she stood at the front of a classroom, effusively greeting 25 strangers who had signed up for her two-day workshop, "Writing the Unthinkable," which is also the basis for her new book.
"When I was greeting 900 kids in the morning, I could recognise them, but I might not be able to remember their names," said Sudo, who recently moved to Aone after being vice-principal at a much bigger school.
Buzzing with the trills of incoming calls and the hum of reassuring voices, the hive is where every rote greeting — "911, what is your emergency?" — becomes the opening line in a never-ending procession of melodramas, comedies, dramas, tragedies and horror stories like the one that puts the chill in this no-frills diversion.
Acclaimed Iranian actress Leila Hatami was recently chastised by hardliners in Iran who called for her to be flogged and imprisoned for publicly greeting 83-year old Cannes president Gilles Jacob with a kiss.
If you want to impress someone who speaks a certain dialect of Japanese, you can use either the standard greetings provided or look for a dialect-specific greeting.[4].
