Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...menagerie, President Coolidge received a one-animal menagerie in his office. It came in a goldfish bowl and consisted of a horned toad (Phrynosoma cornutum). Old Rip, the toad's name was, because it was supposed to have been buried in the cornerstone of the Eastland, Tex., court house, for 31 years. That it was still alive, President Coolidge could plainly see. As he discussed its merits with Senator Mayfield and some other Texans, he pointed at it, not with his finger, but with the bars of his horn-rimmed spectacles. This gesture, observers realized, was not a conscious...
...President Coolidge nominated Miss Genevieve R. Cline, Cleveland customs appraiser, to be a judge of the U. S. Customs Court. Miss Cline's confirmation by the Senate would make her the first woman ever elevated to the U. S. judiciary...
...nominee, named Oscar De Priest, was by no means the unanimous choice of his fellow blackamoors. William L. Dawson, a Negro who had run against Representative Madden in the April primary and lost by less than 12,000 votes, promised to contest Mr. De Priest's nomination in court. Up-and-coming younger Negroes said that Oscar De Priest was the oldtime Uncle Tom type, not well suited to represent the modern negro in Congress. There was, moreover, a vice-graft shadow on the De Priest record as a member of the Thompson machine, in which he had functioned...
...line reverts to the city. After 15 years of experience, the I. R. T. has concluded that rides-for-a-nickel are economically obsolete. Last winter the I. R. T. asked the State authorities to authorize a 7-cent fare. Refused, the I. R. T. sought a Federal court order restraining New York City and State from preventing the collection of 7-cent fares, on the ground that the 5-cent fare was confiscatory. Last week, the I. R. T. obtained a 38-page Federal decision allowing the 7-cent fare temporarily. Mayor James J. Walker and his famed predecessor...
When Patrick Henry with a magnificent gesture cried "Give me liberty, or give me death!", he never imagined that his descendants would fall so far from the heights of freedom as to discard their clothes of democracy for the court robe. By the hundred have the citizens of the land of the free bought audience with the successor of the tyrant of the colonies, plaguing high officials and besieging ambassadors to satisfy their vanity...