Word: along
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little more than a courtesy visit. Mr. Hoover is traveling too rapidly to have time really to become acquainted with men and things along the way. Nor need we look for immediate political or economic results, except in so far as the visit influences Mr. Hoover's policy and that of his government after March 4 next. The development of American trade depends largely, if not solely, upon our ability to offer better goods at better prices. And improved political relations depend upon the policy of our Department of State in Caribbean America, and upon the way our Congress manipulates...
...White House dogs had been taken along for a romp in the country-Tiny Tim, the ruddy chow; Bessie, the yellow collie; Diana, the white collie, King Cole, the black Belgian police dog. President Coolidge sat down in the club living room to see and hear Movietones of himself making his Thanksgiving proclamation, and of Kings George of England and Alfonso of Spain. The moving, talking figures on the screen excited the dogs, infuriated them. They barked and barked and BARKED. President Coolidge helped chase them from the room. The show began over again...
...question was submitted to the U. S. and in 1914 Chief Justice White rendered a decision favorable to Costa Rica. Panama protested. There was dispute and even gunfire as late as 1921, when President Harding insisted that Panama accept the White award. * The white potato (Battata) was "discovered" along with Incas Andes gold etc. etc. by 16th century Spaniards. The potato entered Spain, Italy, Belgium before its supposed home Ireland, whither it was taken in 1586 by colonists returning from Raleigh's venture in the Carolinas...
...fair price for a fair symphony which is what Atterberg has delivered f. o. b. as per esteemed order of yesterday's date, and hoping for continuation of valued custom.";,Composer Atterberg took the same tack, let his laughter reverberate through the press: that all along he had meant it only as a joke; that he had deliberately plagiarized and that only one critic had guessed. The $10,000 was his, he said, and the laugh on them. But to many it seemed singularly empty laughter. The Columbia Phonograph Co.. donors of the prize money, could not believe...
...Dramatic Club and the Cercle Francais are not along among undergraduate organizations in their seeking of the new as a bracer for the time-tested values of the classical. The past few weeks have seen the announcements of the former's premiere of a drama, and the decision of the latter to go modernistic; and now the oldest of America's musical organizations voices its intention of offering two compositions that are very definitely novelties...