Word: forte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White House valet, "snip, snip, snip!" The President was having his hair cut. Not unduly selfconscious, the President had the operation performed on the State Lodge porch while, despatches reported, "many tourists stopped to gaze at the sight." ¶ Prudence Prim, pet white collie of Mrs. Coolidge, died at Fort Meade, S. Dak. Cause: Distemper with complications. ¶Inasmuch as President Coolidge usually does not attend meetings at which a Democrat is the principal speaker, his ears must last week have heard strange sounds and subversive doctrine. For, attending a farmers' meeting at Ardmore, S. Dak., the President listened...
...cities and towns have City Manager governments of one type or another. Cleveland, with a population approaching a million is the largest City Manager municipality (City Manager, William R. Hopkins). Other outstanding examples of the City Manager system are: Sacramento, Miami, Kansas City (Mo.), Dayton, Cincinnati, Grand Rapids, Norfolk, Fort Worth (Tex.), and in Canada, Montreal. Rapid City, S. Dak., summer home of the U. S. Government, also is a City Manager city...
...Shiny boots were re-shined, polished buttons re-polished, cleaned rifles re-cleaned last week at Fort Meade, Army post. For there was stationed the First Squadron of the Fourth Cavalry, and from that squadron, announced Major General Harry A. Smith, Commander of the Seventh Corps Army Area, Omaha, was to be chosen the presidential guard which will look after the safety of the President during his summer stay in the Black Hills...
Relation's with Canada. Schoolboys innumerable have recited that the U. S. is bounded on the north by Canada; peace-lovers have beamed upon this border as one of the few great international boundaries "unmarred by fort or battleship." But U. S.-Canadian relationships have not been invariably happy; sometimes harsh words have been spoken, sometimes powder has been burned...
Married. Captain W. A. Tyler, 99, probably sole survivor of the battle of Fort Sumter, onetime superintendent of Arlington Cemetery; to Mrs. Martha Jellison, 70; at the Illinois Soldiers' Home, Quincy...