Word: holde
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quite all the Hoover troubles had been smoothed out. Dispute again arose as to who shall hold the Presidential hat at the Inauguration. Newt Butler of West Branch, Iowa, was to have been official hat-holder, because as a boy he "licked the stuffing out of Bert Hoover." But now 92-year old J. W. Reeder of Tipton, six miles from West Branch, claimed the honor, chiefly on grounds of seniority. Mr. Hoover will decide the hat-holding problem personally...
Sculptor Davidson came last week with the statue from Paris. The ship careened and quivered in stormy seas. Sculptor Davidson also quivered, fearful for the precious marble in the hold. In Manhattan he was invited to dinner by Fola La Follette, daughter of the Senator and wife of Playwright George Middleton. But Jo Davidson did not appear. From 7 o'clock in the evening until 4 o'clock in the morning he kept a cold vigil by the entrance of the Anderson Galleries while workmen gingerly engineered his ponderous statue through a portal which was almost too narrow...
From the solitude of his estate in Connecticut Dr. Taylor has written expositions of the development of thought belief, and culture. Since he confines himself so exclusively to writing Dr. Taylor does not hold any professorship in any university and lectures but rarely. He was the Lowell lecturer at Harvard in 1917 and the West lecturer in Leland Stanford University in 1920. He has spoken occasionally before the National Institute of Arts and Letters of which he is a member. Tomorrow he will discuss "Primitive Strain and Religion" and on Thursday will speak on "Fact in Art and Science...
...selections are to be approximately five minutes in length, and must be approved by F. C. Packard, 20. Assistant Professor of Public Speaking. Professor Packard will hold office hours in Holden Chapel at 12 o'clock on every week day except Saturday...
...Were given to understand that Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin will petition the Crown to dissolve the House of Commons on May 24, and plans to hold a General Election on Thursday, June...