Word: lively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge received a first volume of the new, exhaustive Dictionary of American Biography, which will contain 20 volumes when completed. The first volume contained no Coolidges, going only from "Abbe" to "Barrymore." Subsequent volumes will be published at the rate of three per year, but President Coolidge will not live to read about himself in the Dictionary of American Biography. No person or personnage is given space therein until he is dead...
...vanity dresser ever installed on a U. S. warship. Mr. Hoover, unpacking, cast a bright eye on his new-bought kit of deep-sea fishing tackle. Watching the lazy Pacific swells some of his first thoughts were about the monster sailfish, amber-jacks, tuna, wahoos, crevalles and yellowtails that live off the coast of Lower California and in the tide-rips from there to Chile...
...which, "spread around the country, would have altered the result." False note though this latter seemed-since only 137,501- more popular votes "spread around the country" would have given Hoover all the electoral votes-it did not spoil the main theme: "The Democratic party is a live, a vigorous and a forceful major minority party...
...Singer. Poor girls who work hard, live right, do not always develop into great singers. Marion Talley disappointed. So did Mary Lewis, Grace Moore. But Clara Jacobo promises better things. She has at least, contrary to her predecessors, a mighty voice that fills the far crannies of the opera house. She has had operatic experience, sings and moves with an assurance that projects over the footlights. Her first Leonora quavered occasionally, strayed a bit from the pitch but critics took it all kindly, as part of a debut performance, voted her a useful addition to the Metropolitan roster...
...same year (1908) he founded the mental hygiene movement. The first society was in Connecticut. Now half the United States have similar ones. Coordinating their activities is the National Committee for Mental Hygiene. Humanitarian Beers is its secretary. Its aim has been to "enable men, women and children to live happier, healthier and more efficient lives through better understanding and management of the processes of their minds and of the controlling forces in human behavior...