Word: calvinism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have the honor to inform you that on this day your mine has been reduced to ashes. . . . The losses which you have sustained in the aforementioned mine you may collect from the Government of the United States and Mr. Calvin Coolidge, who is truly responsible for the horrible and disastrous situation through which Nicaragua is passing at present...
Second-"Oh, I know. Calvin Coolidge...
Albert M. ("Lucky") Snook, Vandyke-bearded publisher of the Aurora, Ill., Beacon-Journal, smiled when stupid photographers asked him to spell his name over again. He had distinguished himself at the Associated Press convention in 1924 by emitting a strange & enthusiastic cry on the appearance of President Calvin Coolidge. His wife, at home in Aurora, heard the cry over the radio, said: "When I recognized Mr. Snook's holler, I knew he was all right." Mr. Snook achieved the epithet of "Lucky" when he won The Chess Game, a painting by John Singer...
President Calvin Coolidge figured in the laughs. His name was signed to a letter saying The Nation was a "darb"; his picture was substituted for Benjamin Franklin's in the masthead of the Saturday Evening Post, which was published "in association with the United States mint and N. W. Ayer...
James A. Reed, U. S. Senator from Missouri, addressed a curious audience at the City Club, in Cleveland. He called Harry M. Daugherty a "political leper," Andrew W. Mellon a "betrayer," Calvin Coolidge, "a man about whom I would not say he knew anything unless I knew he knew." Then Senator Reed remarked that "Will Hays, Tsar of the Movies, deceived the Senate Teapot Dome Committee," and suggested that Mr. Hays be replaced by Fatty Arbuckle...