Word: forkfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There is another tale of a White House dinner. Mrs. Coolidge was in a lively mood; she had attended a concert-the Philadelphia Orchestra, Paderewski, or Jeritza-and was quite enthusiastic ... until the President, laying down a fork and drawing a napkin across his lips, interjected: "'I can't understand why you keep running around to these musicales when there are five pianos right here in the White House...
...apple tree was important in his adventure, because it was his own apple tree. He had rented it for $10 from a friendly landowner. While he stood in its fork he was abiding in it?hence it was his house and, by the tradition of freehold, his fortress. Some newspapermen, a few strikers, the members of the United Front Committee and a dozen policemen stood around the gnarled bole and listened to him. He asked them to keep the law. He asked them not to commit any disorderly acts. He said that in his opinion the bail...
While buxom farmer-waitresses piled his plate with boiled joints, boiled vegetables, boiled puddings, he plied a fork with his free hand, rising now and then to join the farmers in a toast...
...houses on a peerage as really great railroad bankers with J. P. Morgan & Co. and Kuhn, Loeb & Co. But the Interstate Commerce Commission must approve such a merger.* The Frisco has two principal lines, which cross at right angles. One starts at St. Louis and extends southwesterly with its fork reaching into Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. Another line extends southeasterly from Kansas City to Birmingham, Ala., where by arrangement with the Southern Railway it makes connection with the 147 miles of the Muscle Shoals, Birmingham & Pensacola, of which the Frisco recently got control. This branch gives it tappage...
...players spat, gripped bats and, stepping 'to the plate, sent the pitchers' swiftest offerings in long parabolas to the spaces of verdure behind the outfielders. The agile basemen were "On their toes to , make stops, pickups, putouts and what not. Moundsmen were regaining their speed, sending across curves, fadeaways, fork-balls that baffled the sturdiest batter. Well might loud eurekas issue from the lips of the fence-warmers. The teams, after they had played some practice games against one another, entrained for the North...