Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recent year of his Administration. Last week he remained no more and no less a candidate than he had been since his oracular "choice" of last August. Some observers believed that he might utter an Absolute Negative before or at the Budget meeting, for one of two purposes: to clear the track completely for Candidate Hoover, or to discountenance finally the Coolidge-anyway movement, of which the latest slogan, attributed last week to Committeeman Hilles and friends in New York, was: "Coolidge or chaos." Others said the Absolute Negative, or perhaps a Loyal Acquiescence, would go to the convention...
...Italian quarter of New York gives a clear-cut sensation of a transplanted fragment of the mother country. . . . You know the dream of all Italians in America is to return to Italy...
Pencilled notes for a forgotten lecture may tell a vivid story. And the few sentences thus written by President Eliot, printed elsewhere today, draw a curiously clear picture. Written as notes for a speech of advice to undergraduates, these brief maxims are the best shor: description of President Eliot that has ever been written...
...careful, upright handwriting was perhaps the first sign the clear concise statements complete the portrait. Best of all is the sentence describing the writer's visage the face with character stamped so strongly upon...
...more thrilling than it is. The biographer of President Eliot--Henry James '99--may welcome the discovery; and future biographers of present and future presidents may look long through "miscellaneous papers in Widener" for pencilled notes of lectures. But few of such notes, if any, will draw as unwittingly clear a self-portrait as those of President Eliot...