Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...busy-buzzing week at the White House, cramjam full of people and small incidents yet free from the strain of any really pressing situations. President Coolidge seemed exceptionally affable-save for a moment here & there (see "FESS INCIDENT")-and unwontedly loquacious-except at times such as when onetime (1919-21) Governor Henry J. Allen of Kansas talked at length about the necessity of President Coolidge's renomination. The President's sole reply to his caller's long speech was: "How's crops...
Onetime U. S. Senators are plentiful everywhere ? except in New England. Within the past four years, Death (as it must to all men) came to Senators Colt (aged 78) of Rhode Island, Brandegee (aged 60) of Connecticut, Lodge (aged 74) of Massachusetts, Fernald (aged 68) of Maine, and Dillingham (aged 79) of Vermont...
Without realizing it, men-in-the-street are prone to think of the Socialist nebula as a misty organism of a more or less reddish hue, with parties and particles, creeds, organs, persons and programs whirling round & round, and getting nowhere except in Soviet Russia, which is east of Europe and therefore does not count. Red footstools, red neckties, intentionally crude cartoons, stuffy parlors and garrets, late hours, morose arguments, "long-haired men and short-haired women," dirty fingernails and a strange courage, are among the peculiar properties of Socialism...
...Reed's rebuttal excited the public health convention. Men shouted and gesticulated. Dr. Reed wanted to speak further. "Dr. Emerson," said he, "tried to make prohibition responsible for about everything except the frost on the pumpkin and the swallow's homeward flight." Dr. Charles Value Chapin of Providence, R. I., chairman of the meeting, ordered the discussion closed, soothed everybody...
...competition is open to all undergraduates, except former prize-winners, in the following colleges and universities...