Word: happier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Backbone of the Fleet." The gentlest of swells and a light air from the west made it a perfect review morning, far happier than the morning in 1927 when Calvin Coolidge was first squeamish and had to sit down, then frankly seasick and had to lie prostrate below while the Fleet roared salutes for his momentarily unmanned office. President Hoover stood under the eight-inch guns of the Salt Lake City-10,000 tons, last crisp word in U. S. cruisers-and peered closely through binoculars at the trim masses of war machinery which soon came plowing past. From...
...Happier would be the life of any President if custom did not require him to act as No. 1 Greeter of the nation. Last week President Hoover received, among many another: 1) Ivar Kreuger, Swedish match tycoon; 2) The Earl of Derby here for the Kentucky race; 3) U. S. Circuit Court Judge John Johnston Parker, Supreme Court rejectee; 4) Frank Morrison, secretary of the American Federation of Labor with a plea against curtailed Navy Yard employment; 5) Professor Enrico Glickenstein, Polish drypoint etcher; 6) Dr. William Oxley Thompson, president emeritus of Ohio State University; 7) Theodore Roosevelt, Governor...
...Anton Lang. He is elegantly mannered, confident, magnetic. He keeps 40 hives of bees, likes to smoke and drink beer with the Apostles at the Hotel Alte Post. He carves innumerable wooden Christs, and exhibits no false modesty about his exalted position in the Passion Play. No one is happier in Oberammergau than his stout, simple wife, who might easily be mistaken for his mother. Some villagers will tell you that the hair of Alois Lang owes its luxuriant curliness to a permanent wave...
...continued prosperity of America is caused largely by sensible, moderate whiskey drinkers spending less money for intoxicants resulting in their savings being invested in Real Estate, Life insurance, Financial Institutions, Automobiles and many ways of making the Irish and Americans richer and happier, is this the correct explanation...
...after their undergraduates days that it seems more than legitimate for the collegiate press to step out of its usual role of disinterested observer.. To keep under cover, the unpleasant sores of prohibition, which can be cured only by being opened, is to postpone the arrival of a happier solution of the problem of temperance...