Word: calvinism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This was because Director Homer Saint-Gaudens, when he went abroad last spring to invite certain artists to show their work, did not, as has previously been mandatory, limit each exhibitor to one picture. By including fewer artists, he allowed each one to send several representations. Lay visitors?including Calvin Coolidge, Andrew W. Mellon, Paul Claudel?were dazzled as they looked at the blobs of irregular fire against the walls of the Institute; never before has the International hung so many modernists or rated them so in the prize awards...
...been returned to some legitimate work- or is there such an army of these men that no legitimate work can be found for them all? We can't think of a shadow of a reason why John should need a watchdog or, if he does, why Calvin Coolidge shouldn't pay for it out of his own pocket as any other father would. Are we to wind up by charging the American people for a nurse for Calvin Coolidge's fourth cousin's baby girl Gwendolen or a veterinary for his wife's great aunt...
...easy; and not funny enough. Readers who hear funny stories, read funny papers, go to vaudeville shows, had heard most of the stories. Some few readers were particularly dismayed. "Are we," they asked, "to have more of the odd taste displayed by Mr. Cobb at a dinner to Calvin Coolidge last spring in Manhattan given by the United Press Association? With the President and Mrs. Coolidge present, Mr. Cobb concluded festivities with a story of a child afflicted with internal rising and active nausea...
Will Rogers attracted attention by offering in his daily squib to bet his fellow paragrapher, Arthur Brisbane, $5,000 unconditionally, that Calvin Coolidge would run for President next year, not because Mr. Coolidge wants to but "because he has to." For this some called Will Rogers courageous in his convictions. Others cried: "Publicity hunter! Headline hound! Rooster-booster...
Harlan Fiske Stone, latest addition (1925) to the Supreme Court, is its youngest, biggest, strapping-strongest member. He is but 55, He was graduated by Amherst College the year before Calvin Coolidge, in 1894. For 14 years (1910-24) he was Columbia University's Dean of Law and spent eleven months, between quitting that post and taking his present one, at being U. S. Attorney General. There was a flurry before Mr. Associate Justice Stone's confirmation by the Senate over the fact that he once represented J. P. Morgan & Co., and a storm over the fact that...