Word: capitol
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge in august array came nine portents of the beginning of another season of Government-Mr. Chief Justice Taft and his eight associates of the Supreme Court-to pay respects before sitting at the Capitol...
With a gentle swishing of black robes and the slow-shuffling steps of wise old men, the Supreme Court of the U. S., august at Washington, convened for another autumn session in its semicircular little room in the Capitol...
...when he was a 332-pounder in the White House and when he said, "Things are in a sad state of affairs when a man can't even call his gizzard his own!") Until 11:30, he reads and dictates in his study; then by motor to the Capitol, to sit from 12 to 2; then the luncheon recess and the one real meal of the day (meat, vegetables); sitting again, until 4, and home by motor. This is the hour when children who play in the vicinity of the Connecticut Avenue bridge espy the huge old figure...
...with gloves that troublesome symbol, the Equalization Fee. Without gloves he had man-handled the G. O. P.'s eight-year "solicitude and sympathy" for the farmer. If it had "listened well" to Republican Governor McMullen, Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith was content. He continued his inspection of the State capitol which the late, great Architect Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue of New York designed for Nebraska...
Clarence A. Barnes, a Republican candidate for Attorney-General of Massachusetts, annoyed the Happy Warrior by picking up some New York State talk about a gambling pool on major league baseball games which operated "in the shadow of the Capitol" at Albany. Nominee Smith had declared himself technically impotent to act in this matter (there undeniably was a gambling pool) when Col. Roosevelt the Younger stumped around making the same charge...