Word: 150th
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...myth that President Coolidge was born in Vermont; neither is it a fable that Vermont celebrated the 150th anniversary of its independence last week. John Chipman Farrar, earnestly playful editor of the Bookman, composed an ode to commemorate the event. An excerpt...
...unto himself this extra-legal duty, as has many another President. The late Theodore Roosevelt used to dispense moral pap while he was tossing the "big stick," like a juggler chatting with his audience while his eggs are in the air. President Coolidge, however, in his speech on the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Trenton last week, confined himself to revolutionary history and morality. Excerpts...
...fact that Secretary of State Kellogg's clerks double-date every document of moment that leaves the U. S. State Department; once in the usual way; and again dating from "the independence of the United States," now in its 150th year...
...same. Raze. "The women's colleges of this university should be leveled to the ground." So voted the Oxford Union, debating society, last week, 223 to 198. While Phi Beta Kappa men were packing their bags to go to William & Mary where, this week, they celebrate the 150th anniversary of their founding; while majestic little Dr. Henry van Dyke was writing, in Princeton, the speech which he will deliver to his brother Phi Betas, an interesting item appeared in the press. Half of Harvard's Phi Beta Kappa men this year are Jews-five of the eight juniors...
Last week in his birthplace in South Coventry, Conn., citizens assembled to honor the 150th anniversary of his death. A message from President Coolidge was read...