Word: keyed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Well, where shall we begin?" said the section man who had won his key at Arkansas and could be seen every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday in the Hemenway calisthenics class...
...under-alto key...
...semicircular canals with earplugs helps some people. Shutting the eyes also helps, since the sympathetic nervous system is also affected by optical unsteadiness. Drinking champagne is another remedy. But the best thing of all, for seasick prince, pauper or potentate, is to surrender completely and lie down. . . . Returning to Key West from Havana on the swift cruiser Memphis, President Coolidge lay down.* Secretary Wilbur filled an engagement the President had made to address the ship's officers and crew...
Ashore once more, all was well with President Coolidge. He rode around the streets of Key West in an automobile, climbed into the Coolidge Special, slumbered deeply up the Keys and through Florida to Jacksonville, where he got up and called for a breakfast beginning with Spanish melon. Governor John W. Martin of Florida was at the Jacksonville station, (with Mayor John T. Alsop and many a big fruitgrower. The President shook their hands, looked around, re-entrained for Washington. The Coolidge Special's cinema that evening was Uncle Tom's Cabin...
Statesmen of all the Americas journeyed last week to La Habana, the ancient, the rich and golden, the fair and queenly Cuban city of 500,000 souls. Last week she became again what the Spanish conquerors called her, La Llave del Nuevo Mundo "The Key of the New World." Down narrow streets, through which once swaggered the conquistadors, modern statesmen strolled with ingratiating mien, at that same Palace in La Habana from which lorded "Captains General" in the proud name of Spain, there stopped last week, briefly and peaceably, Calvin Coolidge, El Presidente De Los Estados Unidos. The Pan-American...