Word: carefully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...them are answered. In that way it happed that last week a reporter asked: "Will General Dawes, as Vice President, attend Cabinet meetings ?" The answer was: "No; at least, last August, when he dropped in at Plymouth, Vermont, to see the President, he said he didn't care to be present." Here was news, if only a wee bit. Senator Harding, during his campaign in 1920, announced that he would, if elected, invite Governor Coolidge to sit in the Cabinet. Some 7,000.000 votes decided that Vice President Coolidge should do so, and he did. So the precedent...
...Republican vacancies on committees. The Floor Leader is ordinarily Chairman of the caucus. Senator Curtis of Kansas, as assistant leader and whip, called the conference and presided. Senator Warren of Wyoming, by virtue of seniority, was entitled to the leadership. He declined, saying that he did not care for the post, and named Senator Curtis as his heir. Mr. Curtis was elected and empowered to choose a whip to serve under him.* The Commitee on Committees was reconstituted and instructed to oopose Republicans for vacant committee posts. Then Senator Edge of New Jersey rose and the fun began...
...object of the Academy, according to Article 24 of its charter, is stated thus: "The principal function of the Academy shall be to labor with all care and diligence and give certain rules to our language, and to render it pure, eloquent and capable of treating the Arts and Sciences." And, in the famed Letter of the Academy to Cardinal Richelieu, the members proposed "to cleanse the language from the impurities it has contracted in the mouths of the common people, from the jargon of the lawyers, from the misusages of ignorant courtiers and the abuses of the pulpit...
...around the country till his parents indentured him to the captain of a merchant ship for the sum of a shilling a month. He sailed over a great part of the world. In 1902, derelict in Manhattan, he got a job in a saloon serving beer, washing glasses, taking care of the bartender's baby. The poet Yeats encouraged him to write. His works include: The Everlasting Mercy, The Widow in the Bye-Street, Dauber, The Daffodil Fields, Reynard the Fox, Gallipoli (prose), Enslaved...
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