Word: likings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...entrance -and exit-were powerless to record. The figure was James Francis Burke, general counsel of Republican National Committee. What balked the photographers was that the Burke leave-taking of President Hoover's inner political household was not a formal, visible occurrence but a gradual fading-out process, like Alice's Cheshire cat, "beginning with the end of the tail and ending with the grin that remained some time after the rest of it had gone...
...national upkeep, some of those states which are now most vocal [against the tariff] would need amplifiers to make their whispers heard. Such states as Arizona, South Dakota, Idaho, Mississippi etc. do not pay enough toward the upkeep of the government to cover the costs of collection, and states like Pennsylvania, hamstrung as they are by adverse legislation, support these backward commonwealths and provide them with their good roads, post offices, river improvements and other federal aid, figuratively on a golden platter...
...superintendents met in General Pershing's office at the State, War & Navy Building.* Each kept clear in mind his view of the bone of contention: The Navy like almost all U. S. institutions of college rank, limits its athletes to three years of collegiate competition. The Army allows members of its three upper classes? to play irrespective of varsity experience a cadet may have had before reaching West Point. The Navy thought the Army ought to conform with the general rule. The Army thought the Navy was complaining because it had been beaten by Army so often lately...
...Good: "Forty-four percent of the 1,200 students at West Point have attended some other college or university. . . . Under the three-year rule, West Point would not have a student body from which it could muster a first class team and would be unable to play large universities like Yale, Harvard, Notre Dame, Illinois...
...claim to it that her team can beat Oglethorpe. Jack Oakie, Broadway showman, changes the hymnlike school song to a ditty called "Alma Mammy." There is also a red-headed fellow who says that a preposition is something you ask a girl. That no college on earth was ever like Pelham does not detract from the fun in Sweetie so much as the director's obvious uncertainty whether he was making a satire or a straight story. Typical shot: a football hero with a loose shoe...