Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...general public clamor" President Coolidge continued unresponsive, leaving G. O. Politicians just about where they were before. Men as daring as Senator Fess said that the "Draft Coolidge" movement had been vastly advanced, since now it must be seen that the draft would be genuine. Others were vexed, not daring to boom for Mr. Hoover, Mr. Hughes, Mr. Lowden, Mr. Dawes or Mr. Whoever until sure that they could believe in a convention prediction which Senator Fess has reported President Coolidge to have made. This prediction was one word shorter than the famed "choice." The President said...
...been arranged in the Widener Memorial Room and will be on display through next week. Manuscripts made while the author of "Alice in Wonderland" was a student at Eton and Oxford, Carroll's own copy of the first edition of the classic fairy tale, and the first rough draft for "Through the Looking Glass," are among the many treasures in the exhibition...
Prediction. Said 93-year-old Chauncey Mitchell Depew last week: ". . . With a ringing speech by some leading Republican, I anticipate there will be a stampede, followed by a unanimous call to Mr. Coolidge to accept a renomination. I don't believe any human being could resist such a draft.... If I remember correctly I am the only man twice invited by acclamation to address a Republican National Convention, and without a time limit. I'd like to do it once more...
...Butler was heading for Washington to confer informally with some members of the Republican National Committee, whom he had summoned privately by letter. The "Sic 'Em Boys" (Democrats, insurgent Republicans, and copy-starved political correspondents) anticipated his arrival by spreading reports that Mr. Butler was still planning a "Draft-Coolidge" movement. When the President characterized these reports as "unfriendly," the "Sic 'Em Boys" transferred the epithet to Mr. Butler and forecast a Coolidge-Butler spat. They also whispered that Mr. Butler was going to pick the G. O. P. convention city; that Mr. Butler was perturbed over insurgency...
...ordinary way of making bricks is to press a mixture of clay, sand and water into forms. Usual size is close to 21¼ x 4 x 8¼ in. Such blocks are dried in the air or in a warm draft. Then they are stacked in a hemispherical kiln usually 30 feet in diameter by 12 feet in height. A yard full of kilns looks quite like a group of dirty red igloos. Their orifices are plugged up and a fire lit under a stout grating upon which the raw bricks are piled. In six to ten days they...