Word: bottome
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Perhaps an authority on the subject might be Will H. Hays, a man who has known the dominant political party of the U. S. from bottom to top; who is an Elk, a 32° Mason and an elder of a dominant U. S. church (Presbyterian) ; the man who reigns magisterially over a dominant U. S. industry (cinema). Mr. Hays helped open a "social club" for the cinema trade in Manhattan last week. New York's Mayor, trig, glib James John Walker, was also present. In the course of his speech, Mr. Hays indicated Mayor Walker, grew intense...
...think about. He was leaving her again, going East for his first job. Inquiries and arrangements had been made with the New York, New Haven & Hartford R. R. after John and his father had decided that railroading would be a good thing to learn, from the bottom up. Mrs. Coolidge spent Labor Day getting John's things packed up and sitting with him on the porch. His mother and father knew how hard on John the Publicity thing could be. Secret Service Man Russell Wood, the boy's constant companion, had orders to guard against and censor...
...them how unusually "logical" and defensible an appointment it was. Not the thinnest cream of the jest would be when newspaper readers and editors discovered that the "unknown's" name has appeared daily for many years on the front pages of leading U. S. newspapers-in the tiny bottom-line advertisements which say: "When you think of Writing, think of Whiting." The personal phase of the appointment was that from the time Calvin Coolidge was president of the Massachusetts Senate (1914-15), William Fairfield Whiting has believed him a man of destiny. He believed even more faithfully than...
...every society, however perfected, there will always be at the bottom a noxious sediment and at the top an obnoxious froth...
Oceanographer Iselin knows what he wants. He wants to see, touch, examine the Globigerina ooze of the ocean bottom, the volcanic debris of the ridge top. To this end he has designed special apparatus: an enormous dredge with bulldog teeth which, lowered to the bottom will take greedy bites of the ocean floor; three miles of cable to take it down and bring it up again...