Word: faces
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge always knew more definitely what he did not want than what he wanted. His messages were often vague on the positive side but crystalline in their clarity about his dislikes and aversions. ... He is negation incarnate. As President, he bestraddled progress face backward...
...Coolidge's plus quality was honesty; honesty backed by a kind of herd courage. Alone he is timid; with his crowd he is immovable, undaunted. And the picture which the millions saw across the gulf which separates a President from his people was the face of an honest man; so they idealized this picture and saw a man who saved their taxes; a man who was immovable amid clamor; a man who defied the mob; a man who beatified plutocracy by glorifying parsimony; a man who defied untoward events by ignoring them-him they saw as a hero...
President of the Duma Rodzianko, a man of huge physique, told thus of a similar encounter: "Rasputin faced me and seemed to run me over with his eyes; first my face, then the region of the heart, then again he stared me in the eyes. ... I, speaking literally, felt my own eyes starting out of my head. ... I felt myself confronted by an unknown, tremendous power...
...with intimate details of the business and management of newspapers." But it overcame its dislike manfully, brought itself to quote its own sales figures: August 1926, 79,458; May 1928, 105,704. Goaded to fury, the Viscountal Daily Mail flung the Post's figures full in its Ducal face. Screamed the Mail: "In close upon two years, the utmost efforts of the Morning Post have succeeded in adding 26,246 copies to its daily net sales. In the same period the net sales of the Daily Mail have risen by 183,579 copies a day." A Harmsworth descended...
...GENTLEMEN, BE SEATED!"?Dailey Paskman and Sigmund Spaeth?Double-day Doran ($4.00). "There'll be a hot time in the old town tonight, my baby," when the interlocutor bids his black-face gentlemen be seated, and starts the volley of wisecracks between Bones and Tambo, the two "endmen." Endmen not only in the semicircle, these two always have the last word?at the expense of the ponderous master of ceremonies, Mr. Interlocutor. For "he is the father of all the foils in vaudeville, those well-dressed gentlemanly fellows of unimpeachable manners, who speak such painfully correct English...