Word: goings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...then he has eaten humble crow by accepting the portfolio of Public Instruction and Fine Arts in the present Cabinet of Sacred Union, wherein Raymond Poincaré is Prime Minister and Aristide Briand retains his pet post of Foreign Minister. Thus it came about that Edouard Herriot had to go out to Pons, last week, as Minister of Fine Arts, and there dedicate a statue of such controversial and inflammatory sort that it plunged him headlong into the gummiest kind of political mess...
...haired Irish Tim of Buffalo, there had been a day in France when, in the full regalia of Colonel, and flashing his automatic he had bellowed: "Come on! They can't hit me and they won't hit you. Let's go." The men he thus summoned at the battle near Landres and St. Georges, he had made iron by drilling them to fight each other naked to the waist and to run miles in bare feet. A poet, Joyce Kilmer, had followed him jubilantly unto death. "Hard boiled'' they called him and terribly "Wild...
...Delano and Aldrich, now that they are to their branch of the profession what Cram and Ferguson or McKim, Mead and White are to theirs, are generally allowed a fairly free hand in their designs. They prefer to arrange, not the house alone, but the grounds and gardens which go with...
...White House needed fixing. The Colony Club in Manhattan is some of their work, as is the institution where girls prepare for membership, Miss Chapin's School which has just opened; likewise St. Bernard's School, and the Knickerbocker Club, where good St. Bernard boys will go if they are lucky. Even Otto Kahn, when he decreed his stately pleasure dome at Cold Spring Harbor, L. I., called upon Delano and Aldrich; they built...
...Cleveland Metal Products Co. resigned six years ago he was neither 1) old, his age was 42; 2) inefficient, he had helped his concern to succeed; 3) dishonest, nor 4) unwanted. Having succeeded in business, during a quarter-century of sedulous attention to it, he is now free to go the remaining steps to the top in Y. M. C. A. work, for contemporaneously with his personal expansion in business he had grown in wisdom and understanding and position in the Association...