Word: door
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What could be more final than that? Nothing in the world, thought the open-mouthed Committee. That is, nothing could be more final for the moment. The Coolidge intention was clear enough. In the four months since the President first shut his door it had been pried wide again. Now he had shut it again. He chose not to lock it. He chose not to anticipate contingencies or to answer his own question: "Who could beat Al Smith if I didn...
...Hughes. In Manhattan, Charles Evans Hughes demonstrated how a noncandidate's door is shut and locked. Last May Mr. Hughes said: "I do not wish my name to be used in any contingency. I am too old* to run for President, and I would neither seek nor accept the nomination." Last week Mr. Hughes said: "I am not a candidate in any sense. I am keenly disappointed by President Coolidge's decision. ... I stand by the statement I made last...
...when she sang in Italy last winter. In the Washington National Opera Festival, singing Mignon, she was only making her U. S. debut. When on two later evenings in the same week she equalled her achievement in the difficult mezzo-soprano of the first, newsgatherers jostled at the stage door. They learned that her writings had furnished the wherewithal for her musical education; that even now she was writing a play for famed David Belasco to produce and her fifth novel; that her real name, which belongs to a onetime singer now a banker and her husband, is Mrs. Christmas...
...Open Door Policy and the Boxer Movement of 1897-1901." Professor Hornbeck, Harvard...
...Rump Parliament and the Tennis Court Oath now have their parallel or parody in the State of Oklahoma where Governor Johnston, in danger of being impeached, flees his nemesis by the efficacious course of placing bayonets before the door of any building where the impeaching body might meet. But these newly created men in the street, with none of the reputed indifference of the other citizens, have already instituted proceedings in what was literally an open session and a standing vote. And the five articles of complaint are but a fire-screen behind which rages the feeling against efficient...