Word: madison
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Affaires of Salvador, Persia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Paraguay, Nicaragua, San Domingo and Roumania; the Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee; the Secretary of State of the U. S.; the President of the U. S.; and the respective ladies-all sat down to a grand international feast from the Dolly Madison service in the state dining room of the White House. Besides there were poinsettias, stevia, maidenhair ferns and French gilt candles. The builders of the tower of Babel would have been shocked if the assemblage had begun to talk in its native languages. Afterwards there was music by Mr. Schelling...
...team of bowlegged French-Canadian skaters from Montreal cut the ice in the rink of Madison Square Garden, Manhattan, into a fine powder. This way and that they swayed and slithered, passing the puck with flawless teamwork. A huge crowd of sportsmen, society dames, politicians, actors, editors, financiers, diplomats, discovered- as perhaps they had discovered before-that hockey is a pretty but not always a gentle game...
...believes implicitly in the might of his right mauler. Standing in the middle of the most magnificent prize-ring in the world-a ring with posts of brass, bucket-holders of brass, seats braced with brass, and ropes of bottle-green plush-the Star Chamber of the new Madison Square Garden, Manhattan-he pushed that fist so violently into the face of Paul Berlenbach that the latter fell down and reclined on his side, head, ear, shoulders, hips and legs. The referee's arm began to rise and fall and a great crowd rose in pandemonium...
...Madison Sayles of Belmont was elected vice-president of the class by an overwhelming majority, getting three fifths of the total votes of the class, and 171 more than his closest competitor, Nathaniel Hamlen...
...voting figures follow. President E. C. Haggerty 192 J. D. Hitch Jr. 169 Geoffrey Platt 95 Thrown out 1 Total 457 Vice-President Madison Sayles 275 Nathaniel Hamlen 104 C. I. Wylde 77 Thrown out 1 Total 457 Secretary-Treasurer L. H. Duggan 217 Alexander Donald 134 R. A. Magowan 100 Thrown out 6 Total...