Word: clamming
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...White House birthday party began with a clam cocktail, ended with a modest fruit cake with 21 candles. "In our family," grinned Mrs. Roosevelt, "they never go beyond 21." With only a few of the family present-Elliott and his second wife and Anna Roosevelt Boettiger- President Franklin D. Roosevelt thus unostentatiously observed the end of his 53rd year of life. But out in the night over every horizon, wherever the U. S. flag flew, 4,000,000 of the President's fellow-citizens were marking his birthday with a huge celebration. Communities staged over 7,000 Birthday Balls...
...Seattle Clam Grower J. C. Carroll sued Puget Sound Navigation Co. on the ground that its steamer, Chippewa Chase, disturbed his clams...
...times was he turned away. So Nominee Peterson began crying out at Republican rallies that Chairman Emerson, conservative Pullman merchant, was subtly working for his defeat by withholding campaign cooperation. Last week at a G. O. P. meeting at Bellingham. again outside the doors of a party clam-dinner from the rostrum of which he had been excluded, Rev. Payson Peterson loudly demanded Chairman Emerson's resignation, charged that Emerson was getting not only his funds but his directions from William Curtise Butler...
Hottest of hot stories in the U. S. Press was the Lindbergh kidnapping, murder, investigation and last week the arrest of the clam-mouthed Hauptmann (see p. 12). Any publisher would have given a year's profits for a complete scoop on the case. Certain Manhattan dailies even had men permanently assigned to the story, year in, year out. An ambitious Hearstling visited New Jersey State Police headquarters every week on his day off, patiently burrowing an inside track...
...officers called at the University of Islam, housed on the second floor of an old brick theatre building, ten blocks east of the city's downtown business district, and had the door shut in their faces. They went back with police, but the school's instructors were clam-mouthed. All the visitors saw were some 40 little blackamoors marching in military formation...