Word: electively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fourteen Senators and a Senator-elect-all Republicans-breakfasted at the White House. They went away digesting sausages, fried eggs, buckwheat cakes and the impression that President Coolidge wants to get the U. S. into the World Court as a crowning event of the Coolidge...
...launches were lowered for a late-afternoon fishing expedition. Captain Victor A. Kimberley, the Maryland's commander, put off in a third boat to act as a patrol against unimaginable dangers from the desolate Mexican shore. In his hands rested the safety of his country's President-elect...
...biggest one" struck, Pundit Sullivan hooked a small but active dolphin. Unaware of any call for etiquette, the Sullivan dolphin rushed across the Hoover line, fouled it, dragged the new Hoover reel off the new Hoover rod. As Pundit Sullivan landed his dolphin, the sun sank. The President-elect went home for supper. Allan Hoover, out fishing with Secretary George Akerson, caught nothing and thereby caused his mother to lose...
...Maryland's company took up deck golf, shuffleboard, trapshooting. Except for the President-elect's customary tall stiff collar, every one changed entirely to tropical clothes. Will Irwin, writing for the New York World, reported: "The atmosphere is courteous and pleasant, without formality, and everything is 'as easy as an old shoe.' " The Maryland's radio operators were busied, sending tens of thousands of idyllic press reports and receiving Associated Press flashes for publication in The Evening Hurricane, ship's daily...
...that the football season is happily over and the Senior Class is about to elect their Class Day officers, it seems an appropriate time to bring up an unpleasant incident in the Class Day exercises last June...