Word: kept
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pending bills (see THE CONGRESS), and what he would do about them if passed in such-and-such forms, kept President Coolidge busily occupied, conferring, suggesting, protesting, making himself felt, making himself clear. The Senate's latest program of tax reduction had his approval; the McNary-Haugen farm marketing bill was probably riding to a veto; the Senate's flood-control bill was dubious and when it passed the House and went to conference, President Coolidge received its proponents again & again. He yielded stubbornly to their insistences and insisted on points of his own. The new week began...
...gross canard. The Senate's mumps did not exist outside of the irresponsible pages of The Club-Fellow. Senator Joe Robinson had, it was true, a bronchial cold which kept him from his seat for five days. Senator Johnson, too, was briefly indisposed. But both were quite unmumped. Persons with respect for Senators viewed the gossip-swollen Club-Fellow with alarm. The sheetlet's irresponsibility was further revealed by its evident confusion of the Senate's two Robinsons. Still talking about "Senator Joe Robinson" The Club-Fellow said: "At any rate they [mumps] have kept Robinson quiet...
Most monkeys are gay & cheerful, but the proboscis monkey from Malaysia and the howling monkey from the tropics are a pair of supercilious snobs. Dr. Raymond Lee Ditmars of the N. Y. Zoological Garden has kept a howling monkey for three years only by pampering and coddling it, keeping it in a fine special cage, with "Vitaglass" windows to admit the ultraviolet...
...years ago, Hagen kept Abe Mitchell waiting half an hour on the first tee at Weybridge. When he finally arrived he said that he was very sorry, his car had broken down, an explanation that nobody accepted, least of all Mitchell who, exhausted and keyed up by waiting, played badly and was badly beaten. This time Hagen, with a tall detective beside him, got to the course an hour early and waited for Compston. The Englishman laid him a stymie at the first hole, was three up at the fifth; Hagen sliced his drive into a ditch at the sixth...
Driving sharply eastward over the North Atlantic last week but kept apart by the watery curve of the days were two great U. S. steelmakers. The first was James Augustine Farrell, 65, since 1911 president of the U. S. Steel Corp. The second was Charles Michael Schwab, 66, the first (1901-04) president of the U. S. Steel, now chairman of Bethlehem Steel.* Mr. Schwab was going to England to receive the Bessemer Medal; Mr. Farrell was going to Italy for health & pleasure. He had worked 18 years without surcease and now he needed recuperation...