Word: leading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...motion. Other notable daughters were to be present-Mrs. Leona Knight of Providence, R. I., to cast at least one vote for her father, Candidate Curtis of Kansas; Sarah Schuyler Butler, daughter of President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University (he, too, is a delegate), to follow the lead of National Committeeman Charles D. Hilles in trying to "draft-Coolidge"; President Roosevelt's daughter Alice (wife of Speaker Nicholas Long-worth), to watch; and the late Speaker Joseph Gurney ("Uncle Joe") Cannon's daughter, Miss Helen Cannon of Danville, 111., "to be very quiet." Miss Cannon arrived early...
Candidate Hoover, the Administration's busy but not unworried Beaver Man, said he would stay at his desk in Washington. He had duties. He was the leading candidate and his lead rested on his record. To speak for him in Kansas City went James W. Good, who managed Mr. Coolidge in the West four years ago. Mr. Good put up big placards asking: "Who but Hoover...
Under the title "What possessions or acquisitions in college lead to success in after life" President Eliot enumerates...
...Early Lead Tells...
...three-run lead which the Purple accumulated in the first frame was never lost. With one out, Shanahan singled to right, Savage followed suit, and Shevlin swept the sacks as clean as the proverbial Dutch kitchen with a triple to left centre. When he tried to steal home Cutts hurled the ball to the grandstand...