Word: harding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spells "Yes." Dislocation of the vowels spells "veto," a hard thing for a U. S. President to write. Not over 600 vetoes have been written since the U. S. Government started functioning. In that time the Congresses have passed upwards of 50,000 bills and resolutions...
Then a little parched figure arose, on the Senate aisle, hard behind the seat of Democratic-Leader Robinson, whose lieutenant the little man is. It was 74-year-old Furnifold McLendel Simmons, Senator from North Carolina these 27 years, political uncle of Josephus Daniels and William Gibbs McAdoo, unchallenged boss Democrat of his State?until after the Brown Derby's visit to Biltmore, N. C., in April. During that visit, younger men in the State took a look at a man who seemed to promise a supremacy greater than that of little old Senator Simmons. Editorials appeared. Letters went around...
Phillips Andover Academy yesterday morning won the twenty-seventh annual Harvard interscholastic tennis tournament, on Divinity courts. It was a hard-earned victory with Phillips Exeter Academy running a close second...
...dunes. The big gallery scared both women, but Mlle. Le Blan least. Mlle. Le Blan has a flashing eye, a hook nose, a big mouth, and a strong, graceful body. She wore stockings, leather coat, woolen gloves, like Miss Wragg. Since she felt comfortable her drives were long and hard, her putts accurate. She beat Miss Marshall at the 34th hole. "I am glad" said she "to have saved the championship for France...
...comeback in his encounter with Pitman of Yale, when a stubbornly contested three set match ended with a score of 5-7, 6-4, 7-5 in favor of the Crimson leader. Pitman stormed through the first set, using his fast flat first serve with great effect on the hard surface. Whitbeck, recovering in a fast second set, won it 6-4 and went into the third with terrific strokes which wilted Pitman's three-game lead and took...