Word: calling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hard-toasted bran bread-(oh, how different from the oranges, beefsteaks and sugary coffee which he used to swallow when he was a 332-pounder in the White House and when he said, "Things are in a sad state of affairs when a man can't even call his gizzard his own!") Until 11:30, he reads and dictates in his study; then by motor to the Capitol, to sit from 12 to 2; then the luncheon recess and the one real meal of the day (meat, vegetables); sitting again, until 4, and home by motor. This...
...Goodness! Nineteen-twenty-eight! [Chuckle.] Why, its half a century since I left college. I played football-and I was class salutatorian. They used to call me 'Big Bill.' I suppose [chuckle] all heavy Williams get called that [chuckle]. Big Bill Edwards-Big Bill Thompson [chuckle, chuckle...
...From wet Wisconsin to wet headquarters in wet Chicago went a letter from Benjamin Fuelleman, a State committeeman. "Unless Mrs. Willebrandt is muzzled," wrote Mr. Fuelleman, "Mr. Hoover is sure to go down to defeat. ... If she fails to do this [return to Washington, be silent], President Coolidge should call for her resignation. . . . We cannot do it if we have to carry around 'an old man of the sea' such as Mrs. Willebrandt has proven herself...
...seems to me that during the last two Republican administrations, in the absence of this necessary leadership, there has been what we might call a hidden control. There seems to be somebody pulling the strings from behind the scenes...
...survey, conceived we must believe, in a vengeful spirit, shows that Harvard men far from shunning their Cambridge neighbors, far from ignoring the fact of their existence, succumb in swathes at the first discreet mating call heard from them following Commencement...