Word: calvinism
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...first annual President Calvin Coolidge Week is now a warm glow both in Northampton, Mass., where Coolidge lived before and after his presidency, and in the White House, whose current occupant is his most powerful admirer...
What defines a Japanese woman? It is not the kimono. She is more likely to wear Calvin Klein than a kimono, or even the modern Japanese designs currently fascinating New York. It is not her aspirations, which are no different from women's all over the world. She wants a husband and children, education and fair pay, a role in the larger society guaranteed by legal equality, and the right to control her childbearing...
...Calvin Coolidge convened both Houses of Congress in 1927 and--talkative for once--denounced Mexico as the source of "Bolshevik" subversion in Central America...
...bagged parking meters reserve entire street-lengths for the guests of honor and their families, aviating the Square's already skin-tight parking situation. The guests pulled up in Audis and Rabbits and taxis, cocktail glasses in hand, wearing anything from t-shirts and bermuda shorts to Calvin Klein pastel-striped sweaters to a full suit and tie. Their arms outstretched in the firm handshake mode they ran into everyone they expected or didn't expect in the first few moments and introduced them to glowing if harried wives and reticent if recalcitrant offspring...
Modern Times' golden age is America of the '20s. Prosperity and educational opportunity grew vigorously; art, music and literature made major breakthroughs. Much of this occurred under the unwatchful eyes of Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge, the last Presidents who were able to practice the preachment that government rules best by governing least...