Word: around
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...still contend that he has no sense of humor. Your instance of his pushing a bell and scampering away while detectives look around to find out who did it (TIME, Jan. 21) indicates rather that he has fallen into his second childhood. I have a boy, eight, who pushes the doorbell and scampers...
That sprung the ballyhoo. And from around this mundane sphere...
...White House refused to reveal the amount of the Coolidge contribution. The Community Chest officials were tightlipped. But a wicked rumor flew around the capital that the President's check was for "Twenty-five dollars and no cents...
...good ship Coolidge is approaching its final port. Soon there will be a general debarkation of officeholders, a great sifting of and searching for new berths. Wise political mariners quit their vessel just before she docks and thus avoid the gangplank congestion around March...
Seemingly it was not until the second or third day of such royal slumming that Edward of Wales fully and deeply sensed the misery around him. He reacted by demanding to see the books and pay sheets of several employers, and appeared scandalized when one such sheet showed that a gang of four men, working five shifts, received at the end of the week only 29 shillings...