Word: almanacs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reading of messages addressed to them by the President. They do not leave if he appears in person. And one of the chief reasons for their leaving when he does not appear is that the Presidential message, if a good one, is better seen than heard. It is an almanac and there are only two ways of coping with an almanac?to ignore it or pore over...
...70th Congress received last week from President Coolidge an almanac of some 9,000 words on the State of the Union. He was sorry it could not be shorter. The bursting-with-fact nature of its paragraphs were its apology. Where it had to dip into theory it emerged abruptly and proceeded apace. Levity is not permitted to Presidents, especially in surveys of the state of the union, yet such is the Coolidge humor that some of this message's least ponderous paragraphs were devoted to three of his most vexed topics...
...Superintendent McBride of the Anti-Saloon League bowed to Captain Stayton and the A. A. P. A.: "They can get it [U. S. sentiment on liquor] for 50c in any good almanac or other compilation of the returns of last election...
...commercial school which gives six months' and longer courses in bookkeeping, typewriting, stenography and kindred subjects. The business college has no connection with the college. If rewrite men cannot carry in their heads names of college presidents (surely not an impossible task) a copy of the World Almanac may be had for 50c and the needed information in this case...
...Woman of Bronze. Seeing this revival of Margaret Anglin's onetime success is like reading last year's almanac. It is not ancient enough to be antique or new enough to be curious, or great enough for the decades. It is just faded. There are offered in stock: 1) an artist, married but fascinated by his model, 2) a wife, married to the artist and ready to "fight for him," 3) a model, beautiful but not for long. In the end the artist comes back home. Most interest attaches to Miss Anglin, who, dedicated in the past...