Word: curtises
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Other U. S. owners of Hoppner-painted children: Banker John Pierpont Morgan; Publisher Cyrus Herman Kotzschmar Curtis; Sportsman-Financier Joseph E. Widener; Pittsburgh Banker William Larimer Mellon.
Vice President Curtis looked over President Hoover's right shoulder, watched him pick up a pen, dip it in ink, write at the bottom of the document the word "Herbert." Then he put the pen down. Speaker Longworth, on the left, watched him pick up a second pen, dip it...
The manner in which Leader Watson led the Senate brought down upon that body a volley of editorial abuse. It was accused of perversity and pique. The Press harped upon uncomplimentary comparisons: the late great Henry Cabot Lodge would never have permitted such legislative chaos; Charles Curtis had steered a...
Another provision upon which Co-founder Cornell insisted?one more cause of opposition in the "burnt-over district"* ?was that the university should be a place "where persons of every religious denomination, or of no religious denomination, shall be eligible to attend." First-President White bore bravely into the...
Clerk Chaffee took one step forward, bowed from the waist to Vice President Curtis, read from a document: