Word: gooding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seventeen miles out to sea she sailed to inspect White Rock Island, under the lee of Santa Catalina Island.* Its two acres of level tableland formed of whitish rock, sheering out of the sea and covered only with stunted growth, looked good to her. Her desire to possess it became fixed...
...good diplomat must always be diplomatic. Recently Rt. Hon. Sir Esme William Howard, Knight Grand Cross of the Bath, Knight Grand Cross of St. Michael and St. George, Privy Councillor Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, Ambassador to the U. S. from the Court of St. James's, proved himself a good diplomat when one James T. Carter, Lynchburg (Va.) lumberman, wrote him a letter demanding that Sir Esme "join hands with the U. S." by relinquishing the privilege of diplomatic liquor importations. The British Ambassador replied (via his private secretary) that he would willingly do so, provided...
Last week Sir Esme made the British Embassy dry. He did it voluntarily, without pressure from the State Department, by refusing to sign any more requisitions for liquor importations. The Drys hailed him as a "great good fellow." South Carolina's Senator Coleman Livingston Blease, prime agitator for Dry embassies in Washington, took off his hat and bowed to him. He was saluted by Henry Ford for his "fine old English spirit...
...thousand people helped Ripon celebrate its claim last week. President Hoover, as honorary chairman, sent Secretary of War James William Good to represent him, to make a speech. The Good speech did not fully uphold Ripon's claim to Republican primacy. Said he: "The party . . . came up, literally, out of the ground, everywhere, in response to a country-wide demand from the people. Events, not men, called it into being...
Great was Riponites' disappointment when Secretary Good refused to give Lawyer Bovay full credit for "founding" the party...