Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some time subsequent, also helped pitch the White House in a new key. One of the first articles of furniture to be moved in was a crib for Grandchild Herbert Hoover 3rd, aged 13. The house was his. He romped and played and chortled up and down its long upstairs corridor. Oldtime servitors had not seen such family fun since the days of the Roosevelts...
...management of the White House is no great burden to Mrs. Hoover, homemaker. Miss Ellen E. Riley, the Coolidge housekeeper, has departed and in her place is Mrs. Ava Long of New Hampshire. Under Mrs. Hoover's supervision, Mrs. Long "runs" the staff of a score of White House "help," mostly black...
...dresses, her father moved to Whittier, Calif., opened a bank, weathered the 1890 slump, went on to Monterey. Lou was a tall lanky girl, not over-strong. Out of banking hours her father had a passion for the out-of-doors, which his daughter inherited. Together they went on long camping trips up into the mountains (Mrs. Henry preferred to remain behind, ride in a surrey). Mr. Henry taught his girl to know trees, flowers, rocks, birds, animals. He gave her lessons in building fires, tent-pitching, sleeping under the stars. "Those days," says Mrs. Hoover, "went by like...
...meet will bring to Cambridge some of the outstanding preparatory stars of the country and bids fair to be the most successful in the long history of Harvard Interscholastic Track Glassics...
...matter of long distance hitting Captain G. E. Donaghy '29 seems to have established himself as the team's blasting bambino with two doubles and two circuit clouts to his credit. B. H. Ticknor '31 likewise has twice knocked foreplay blows, and Prior has equaled his captain in two-baggers. McGrath takes his place at the top of a fourth department with three triples...