Word: calvinism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Waiter Brown looked puzzled as he went back to the kitchen of the dining car. As everyone knows, including Calvin Coolidge, pumpkin pie never has a top crust. Waiter Brown conferred with the chef. Soon he returned with another piece of pumpkin pie. Mrs. Coolidge was smiling...
...last message of Calvin Coolidge to the U. S. Congress proved to be a brief and unmomentous document. It began, of course, on Peace and Prosperity. It announced that, thanks to prudent budget pruning, the Treasury might have a surplus of 37 millions this year instead of the 94-million deficit rumored before the election. Let Congress beware of the "unthinkable disgrace" of unbalancing the budget between now and June 30, it said...
Finally there was a Conclusion-a sort of preliminary farewell to the U.S. people from Calvin Coolidge (who will make at least one more Last Speech at the Hoover inauguration). Said he of peace and prosperity: ". . . Having reached this position, we should not fail to comprehend that it can be easily lost. It needs more effort for its support than the less exalted places of the world. . . . Peace and prosperity are not finalities; they are only methods. It is too easy under their influence for a nation to become selfish and degenerate. This test has come to the United States...
Peter Pan. Such is the intense seriousness of the Civic Repertory Theatre that it resembles the U. S. Cabinet; and Calvin Coolidge, to those who have seen him in leggins, seems a more appropriate impersonator of Peter Pan than Eva Le Gallienne. It was not therefore surprising to find that, as produced by the Civic Repertory Theatre, Peter Pan was a little studied and that Eva Le Gallienne seemed cool-headed and energetic rather than cumbersomely elfin in the name part...
Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis would never think of suggesting that President Calvin Coolidge ought to do his own marketing, or that Mrs. Coolidge ought to be the White House cook. But just such suggestions were made last week by China's Minister of War, the great Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang...