Word: appearing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...through sheer discourtesy that Congressmen leave their seats during the 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...
Skjellerup's comet, due to appear on the western horizon this evening, may have been sighted just after sunset yesterday from the Harvard Observatory, it was learned at a late hour last night from Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and Director of the College Observatory...
When asked what type of man she considered the masculine ideal, the screen celebrity smiled. "You will think I am trying to appear naive when I say that I consider that men like President Coolidge, who is so calm, capable of reflecting intelligently on difficult problems, and able to arrive at logical conclusions: Lindbergh, who is similar to the Crusaders of old, and Will Rogers, who is such a gentleman and actor, are the admirable types of men. Perhaps, I am only cynical when I attempt to visualize a man combining the good qualities of these three...
...Iron Club. It is the one occasion when they can all be good fellows together. The legislative lions are supposed to smile when the literary jackals poke good natured fun at their foibles and failures, and it is an iron clad rule that none of the guests' speeches shall appear in print. Heretics have whispered that the addresses would not be catastrophic if they were released. Certainly the privilege of mocking the mighty was not abused if the gleeful reports in the Sunday papers did the affair justice. The reading of them makes two impressions; one, that the jesting...
...undergraduate says his last farewells to his tutors before removing himself to a literary hibernation, there is but a single jarring note in all this harmony of preparation. In the majority of courses the reading lists, seemingly the most essential feature of a Reading Period, have failed to appear...