Word: keying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...McAdoo forces went to Manhattan to attend a meeting of the Committee on Arrangements for the Democratic National Convention. The meeting of the Committee was to choose a temporary chairman, the so-called keynoter for the Democratic Convention. Each aspirant for the nomination naturally wanted a key-note speaker favorable to him. As compromises between the several factions, Representative Finis J. Garrett of Tennessee and Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi were the chief possibilities. The McAdoo group amicably agreed with the Underwood-Smith group in the choice of Mr. Harrison...
...defied explanation. But with the rashness of men certain of graduation the Yale Senior class has revealed what might prove to be the puzzling secret: for four years the most cherished ambition of the men of '24 has been the winning of a "Y". The Phi Beta Kappa key which for generations was voted the highest honor a Yale man could receive has definitely fallen into that limbo toward which Ralph Henry Barbour first pushed it. Against men who find college dormitories merely a convenient place of residence while gaining proficiency in football and crew, opponents burdened by concentration...
...height that not only the Seniors, but the Juniors and Sophomores have discarded regular clothes and are strolling about the campus in "beer suits" which are best described as pajamas made of canvas. And at Cambridge even John Harvard has shifted ground. The hostility toward study and the golden key is, therefore, probably not the only explanation for Yale's athletic prowess...
...impression in The Living Mask (TIME, Jan. 28), here sounds at times like Eddie Foy. Lowell Sherman, save for one or two humorous moments, is hysterical and seems to be constantly limbering up his fingers for typewriter work. Even the extremely honest, intuitive Helen Gahagan gets a little off key from the general falsetto...
Premier Poincare of France averred in a speech which sounded the key- note of the French Nationalist's election program that his Government is willing to make the necessary concessions to enable the Dawes plan to be put into effect. Certain diplomats professed to see in this statement the empty phrases of electioneering strategy. Positive indications that France will give up the Ruhr were absent and the question of French security against German aggression was a subject that was not seriously discussed...