Word: calvinism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Parnassus. Yet those who walk must have a stride, those who speak must have a style, and Mr. Coolidge has just presented the public with a new specimen of the Presidential literary gait-in 1,120 words he addressed the National Convention of the American Red Cross. By measurement, Calvin Coolidge covered 1,120 words in 62 sentences -an average stride of 18 words a period. This is a short, a simple, almost a mincing gait. It has no nourishes. Full 33 of these 62 propositions are what English teachers recognize as " simple declarative sentences...
...Calvin Coolidge, President of the U. S., was first of the monarchs of the forest to tremble last week before the insidious chill of the approaching season. The Senators from Pennsylvania, George Wharton Pepper and David A. Reed, called at the White House. Mr. Pepper is sometimes referred to as " the best lawyer in the Senate "; Mr. Reed, although young, is rated as an able lawyer. On leaving the President, they "put their legal heads together and devised the following unincriminating statement...
South Dakota will be the first state to display her Presidential preferences. There, in December, a Republican convention, will make a first and a second choice to be presented to the State at ensuing primaries. Shrewd heads among political observers believe that Hiram Johnson will be first choice and Calvin Coolidge second. This will place both in the running, without the formality of casting their figurative headgear into a hypothetical ring...
...newspaper men not to give undue publicity to his sons John and Calvin, now students at Mercersburg Academy...
Nearly every President of the U. S. (Calvin Coolidge is an exception) has been a Mason of high degree. President Harding was to have been "crowned " honorary member of the Supreme Council, Thirty-third Degree, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, at the Council's 111th annual meeting in Manhattan last week. He was looking forward "with most agreeable anticipation to being present at the meeting and receiving the crowning degree of Masonry...