Word: fewness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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¶ The Official Spokesman, famed White House fiction, was one of the Coolidge institutions thrown overboard by President Hoover. Last week the Official Spokesman reappeared, but this time it was no fiction. When all the world was at war and Woodrow Wilson had a great deal to do, he used...
* "Getting his goat" originated on the turf. Race horses, high-strung, feel more at ease if constantly attended by a fellow animal. A cheap, tractable animal, easy to feed, taking up small room in a stall, is the goat. Many a racehorse, especially in England, has had a goat for...
* The Coolidges, as few have forgotten, live at Northampton, Mass.
Richthofen: The Red Knight of the Air (German). Few stories of the War are better fitted to make a movie than the story of Baron Manfred von Richthofen who shot down more than 80 Allied aviators and was found one day between the hostile lines before Amiens sitting dead in...
Once a prime whaling centre, New England is now whale-conscious only when a stray carcass is washed ashore to decompose into a smelly blubbery mass. From San Pedro, Cal., a few independent whalers operate on a small scale. But except for some whaling boats that make South America their...