Word: capitol
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tremendous throat-clearing a minister prayed and the short dark man read a speech from a little leather notebook. Mr. Coolidge listened with one hand up to his face. When the speech was over everybody clapped and helter-skeltered out of doors to the front steps of the Capitol...
...Wind-blown rain dampened his hair, clotted his eyebrows. He shook his head impatiently to get the wet off his face. The fringes of the crowd melted away. Indians in full war paint (friends and race relatives of the Vice President) retreated to shelter under the Capitol's main portico. The President began to hurry his words, faster, louder, doggedly, as the tattoo of water from above grew louder and louder. It was, Boris must have thought, dismal weather...
Citizen Calvin Coolidge accompanied by Citizeness Coolidge quietly drove from the Inauguration ceremonies at the Capitol to the Union Station a few blocks away. At the station they entered the private car of Edward G. Buckland, Vice President of the New York, New Haven & Hartford R. R., an old friend. Frank W. Stearns, who six years ago rode to Washington with the then new President, likewise joined the party. So did Dr. James F. Coupal, who had been White House physician. At 2:35 the Montrealer steamed out of the station to return to Massachusetts its greatest citizens...
...corner of the family farm; later by selling newspaper subscriptions. She reached Washington in 1918, a trained secretary looking for a job. The War Department took her in as a clerk until Senator Curtis found her. Now she is queen Secretary of the whole vast capitol...
...from $24,000,000, which Georgia's Dry Senator Harris proposed for this extra appropriation, to $3,000,000 but contentment shone upon the face of Prohibitor F. Scott McBride, chief of the Anti-Saloon League, who, while hovering about the Capitol to see that some bill was passed, heard himself called "the Super-President of the United States...