Word: curtises
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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¶ Pink carnations, maidenhair ferns, golden candlesticks, 50 empty chairs were seen in the state dining salon of the White House. Soon, and promptly, the chairs were occupied, for the President and Mrs. Coolidge had opened the official Washington social season with the annual Cabinet dinner. Among those present were...
Curtis D. Wilbur, Secretary of the Navy: "I gasped not with horror when 'Sergeant Major Jiggs,' famed bulldog mascot of the Marines, was dropped from an airplane in a parachute and drifted crazily down to the crowd of spectators at the football game between the Quantico Marines and...
The outlook for the coming season is not one of the best owing to the fact that players for the last two years have been afforded only a limited opportunity for practice, and consequently a strong squad of veterans has not been developed. The teams, being forced to seek practice...
"Hear ye, hear ye . . ." droned Sergeant-at-Arms David S. Barry as he proclaimed that the Senate was sitting as a court "for the trial of articles of impeachment exhibited by the House of Representatives" against George Washington English, U. S. Judge for the Eastern District of Illinois. Suddenly, under...
Railroad Mergers. Northwest. Arthur Curtis James, probably the largest railroad stockholder in the country, predicted at St. Paul last week, that the Great Northern, the Northern Pacific and the Burlington would be consolidated into a Northwest system, with only the St. Paul giving competition. Chairman Howard Elliott of the Northern...