Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Coolidge put in an appearance at his offices in the Superior, Wis., high school. He was brown and fatter. He had no news. He soon returned to Brule and for the next two days Superior had nothing better to talk about than "Old Mountain," a legendary trout of monster proportions (35 Ibs. and up) which is supposed to live where the Presidential flies are now dropping. On the President's second office visit, he received some St. Paul and Minneapolis businessmen who felt obliged to him for signing a bill this spring to extend a Government barge line...
...went the speeches, occupying the better part of two long sessions of the convention. Colorado's Thompson, Nebraska's Hitchcock, Ohio's Pomerene, Texas' Jones were also named. Seconding speeches were intermingled with nominating speeches, handsome speeches with fiery, witty with dull, empty with honest...
...first evening had the excitement of novelty. Governor Smith laughed when he heard Chairman Clem Shaver whacking for order with his gavel in Houston. "Maybe we had better lend the Chairman one of the pile-drivers on the new State office building," said Listener Smith...
...wings of which the flossy pianist was softly strumming. On the stage of the theatre an opera company sang to the music of the Berlin orchestra, thus successfully completing an experiment which would, Berlin officials suggested, make it possible for small opera houses in outlying districts to secure far better orchestral accompaniment than has heretofore been possible. The audience at the Potsdam opera house seemed well satisfied...
...build to a price and we do cater to the world. . . . They are discriminating and we try never to lose sight of that fact. We know that the single standard of high quality will produce better motor cars than were we to attempt to secure the business of the world by building to all the pocket books...