Word: blast
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Leavings. Mr. Coolidge left stacks of photographs autographed for memento-beggers (he signed 256 at one sitting); 553 handshakes on his last day in office; two last button-pressings (one was supposed to wreck with a blast of dynamite the last standing vestige of old Fort Sackville at Vincennes, Ind. The blast was a dud, so the building had to be burnt. The other button-push opened a new bridge across San Francisco Bay); a signed bill appropriating $48,000 for a presidential weekend retreat;* his achievements, chief of which he mentioned to newsgatherers as follows: 1) "Minding own business...
...Coolidge speech was obviously designed to generate a warm atmosphere of U. S. friendliness throughout the world. Other auxiliary U. S. heating plants were also in full blast abroad?Ambassador Schurman in Berlin, Ambassador Herrick in Paris...
...completely blast this British fabrication Laborite Ponsonby had adduced two proofs: 1) The indisputable fact that German headquarters were never at Aix-la-Chapelle; and 2) The statement of British General Sir Frederick Maurice who, after the War, had German files and archives thoroughly ransacked without finding a single German newspaper or document indicating that Wilhelm never used the phrase "contemptible little army...
Well! That was quite a blast that you had in the Dec. 17 issue of TIME under the heading of "Education." The instigators of this must have thought quite well of themselves in being able to spread misstatements and false impressions...
...smart-chart, The American Sketch. With her were many more, bewailing, in violent fashion, the too few compliments with which U. S. critics had observed her, and other words celebrating the pretty speeches made to her by Max Reinhardt and polite Edouard Bourdet. Principally, it appeared to be a blast of publicity for Actress Barrymore's latest venture into theatrics, which last week opened in Manhattan, The Kingdom...