Word: holderness
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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...
...setting thus described by him to the Senate, grim-visaged Senator Thomas J. Walsh has a bower, a summer-home on the northeastern end of Lake McDonald in Glacier National Park, Montana. He owns two-thirds of an acre with a 150-foot lake frontage, purchased from the holder of the original land patent before the park was created in 1910. Last week the grey Walsh mustache bristled more ferociously than ever as he did legislative battle in defense of his summer hearthstone and of a governmental principle...
...There is a plan to develop a team, all of younger players. The Davis Cup drawings were made last week in Paris with President Doumergue of France presiding. The U. S. plays Canada first, Japan to meet the winner. England plays Poland. France, the cup holder, waits until the challenge round. Other pairings, as usual, have a musical comedy aspect: Mexico v. Cuba, Austria v. Czechoslovakia, Belgium v. Rumania, Denmark v. Chile, Greece v. Jugoslavia, Norway v. Hungary, Monaco v. Switzerland, Finland v. Egypt, Holland v. Portugal, Germany v. Spain, Ireland v. Italy, Sweden v. South Africa...
...After several hours, Miss Smith began to sing - every song she could remember. That was not insouciance at the moon's stare but a way of keeping warm and awake. By and by the moon set. After 13 hr., 16 min., 45 sec. in the air alone, Record-Holder Smith returned to earth. Endurance records by women, qua women, have no official standing...
...Henderson suggested a scientific method of breaking the record for a given race. "If," he said, "one were to place the record holder in an oxygen tunnel, arranged so that one could adjust the air supply reaching the runner's lungs, it would be possible to eliminate one racing difficulty; breathlessness and subsequent fatigue. Then, if one could arrange a little flag so that it would run around the track at a steady speed just a little higher than the average speed of the previous record holder, and instruct the runner to follow the flag exactly, one would eliminate another...