Word: backed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Winning their games against the First Cleveland Cavalry, 19 to 12 1-2, last Saturday night and against the Cincinnati Riding Club, 12 to 9, last Friday night, the Harvard polo team may look back upon an unbroken string of victories for this season...
...boxes, crates and barrels under her careful eye went objets d'art, china, books, whittling knives, stag antlers, desk sets, etc. etc.- symbols of a people's free-handed affection for their President. Eight Coolidge trunks entered the White House in 1923; 16 trunks will go back to Northampton, Mass., not to mention all the barrels, boxes, crates. "It is," President Coolidge remarked, "easier to get into the White House than...
...shot Florida is no place for a man with work to do. Impatient with its seductions, Herbert Hoover last week boarded his train at Miami, sped back to Washington against the advice of several good friends. Inauguration was still a fortnight off. All precedent opposed such an early return. But Mr. Hoover had lots to do, many people to see. Besides, his home is in Washington...
...Would the President-Elect eclipse the outgoing President? Probably not, for Mr. Hoover is ever cautious. He will sequester himself in his S street home, strive to cast no shadows at all. ¶Mr. Hoover and his party skipped all over southern Florida last week. Bad weather drove him back from his west coast tarpon fishing. He inspected the Okeechobee flood area, saw tent colonies, praised sugar cane and truck growing in low black muck, heard politicians wisecrack about the election and fish for federal aid. At Palm Beach he was feted at the Bath and Tennis Club. At Fort...
...convenience, the four Coolidge vacations may be taken as milestones from which to look back and forward...