Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile, back and forth through the white front door in S Street, passed many people-friends bearing advice, advisers looking for friendship-Indiana's Watson, long of leg and small of eye; Mellon the benign; square-jawed Borah and mouse-grey Good, North Dakota's boyish Nye, Iowa's heavy-footed Brookhart. They talked of many things to the Next President and went away holding their tongues...
East of this room is the President's private office, or study, for generations the old Cabinet room. Here on the flag-flanked "Resolute" desk, a long-ago gift from Queen Victoria, wait the morning papers. It is a cheery room, with bookcases marching up the walls. Here the President receives his favored visitors...
...east end of the hall are three abrupt steps up. Beside them, in the hall's southeastern corner, once sat "Bill" Price of the Washington Star, first of all Washington newsgatherers to make a serious enterprise, under McKinley, of "covering" the President. All newsmen have long since been banished from the inner White House. Until Roosevelt's time, the President's executive offices were up the three steps, filling all second-story space over the East Room. The East Room's extra height elevates the second floor here, thus lowering the sills of the upstairs windows...
Romanticist: But you forget that the terrific outlay on gown of the modern girl is, in the long run, more than equivalent to the sums which the boy friend spends...
...rigours of academic slavery have been borne long and patiently by the students of Harvard, but it remains for feminine wiles to solve the problem of servitude and point to an escape from the rules and regulations attendant upon procuring a higher education. The beautiful Bryn Mawr damsel lounging on her silken pillows until the Sabbath noon, a buttered roll in one hand and a volume of Aristotle in the other is a symbol of emancipation from the monotonous machinery of the modern institution of learning. Not to be outshone, the Wellesley intellectual blows smoke rings in the safety...