make acquaintance

Libraries must be protected as places of learning and reading and as spaces "where we bump into each other and make acquaintance and see each other", Children's Laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce has said.

This week at the Central Cinema, you can see “My Neighbor Totoro” Hayao Miyazaki’s 1988 cartoon classic about two city children who move to the country and make acquaintance with forest playmates their parents can’t see, and “Blazing Saddles,” Mel Brooks’ 1974 sendup of Westerns starring Cleavon Little, Madeline Kahn and Harvey Korman.

A who’s who of Canadian leaders will descend on the 300-person ballroom of the stately mansion on Monday to shake hands and make acquaintance with the royal couple.

On the table are an inkstone, a diminutive water-bottle, two or three camel’s-hair pens or brushes, a stick of Indian ink, and last, though not least, a good solid piece of bamboo with which the refractory and the indolent will frequently make acquaintance during the coming months of the session.

"The reservedness of the Prince's nature, and the little education he then had in Courts made him unapt to make acquaintance with any of the Lords, who were thereby discouraged from applying themselves to him," says Clarendon.