Word: faces
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...choker collar made a loud rapid speech and a short dark man swore to be a good Vice-President. After a tremendous throat-clearing a minister prayed and the short dark man read a speech from a little leather notebook. Mr. Coolidge listened with one hand up to his face. When the speech was over everybody clapped and helter-skeltered out of doors to the front steps of the Capitol...
...Coolidge, without rising from his seat, reached up and did likewise. The President turned back to the public, seen and unseen, and began his speech (see col. 2). Wind-blown rain dampened his hair, clotted his eyebrows. He shook his head impatiently to get the wet off his face. The fringes of the crowd melted away. Indians in full war paint (friends and race relatives of the Vice President) retreated to shelter under the Capitol's main portico. The President began to hurry his words, faster, louder, doggedly, as the tattoo of water from above grew louder and louder...
Charles Gates Dawes rushed into the vice presidency on March 4, 1925, with a crackling, headline-snatching lecture to the Senate on its antiquated rules of procedure. Calvin Coolidge grew red in the face as he listened to that outburst...
...ships are forever about Mr. Adams. At 62 he is greatest of U. S. amateur skippers. His eyes have wrinkles of sun and humor in their corners. His bald head and his face, with its Adams nose, beaked like a New England cliff, are tanned by salty weather. His hands are hard and veined; he wears no rings. His eyes are clear-water blue behind old-fashioned spectacles...
...Last week, motoring to Calhoun, Ga., with her grandson, Mrs. Felton, now 94, was flung against the back window of the car when it crashed another. She, the only one hurt, sat calmly while physicians worked on her face for two hours, staunching her wounds and putting in 20 stitches. *"Little Flower" in Italian...