Word: mail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...next day, received the official bill duly signed by President of the Senate Dawes and Speaker of the House Longworth; despatched it to various members of his Cabinet for their careful consideration. Later, he read it himself. All the while, messenger boys scurried to the White House with telegrams; mail trucks left many a bag. The office of the President's secretary was a madhouse of messages-irate farmers said: "Please sign the bill"; irate bankers said: "Please veto it." The President can take his choice. 1) To sign it would seem to repudiate every statement he has made...
...mail-clad mammal, order Edentata, family Dasypodidae, native to Central and South American plains and forests. The largest species reaches one yard in length. Nocturnal, omnivorous, armadillos do not fight but burrow rapidly or roll up into bony balls when attacked. Armadillos lately came to fame in the U. S., when one was presented to President Coolidge. The little known fact then came to light that the armadillo has young in litters of four, all of the same sex, be it male or female...
...Washington, D. C., Senator Caraway of Arkansas opened his morning mail, found therein a check for $10. The sender congratulated Senator Caraway for his "magnificent speech" in behalf of William G. McAdoo, asked that he transmit the $10 to Mr. McAdoo's Presidential campaign managers. The check speedily went back to the sender with the words: "You are barking up the wrong tree." Senator Caraway, as everyone knows, is an enemy of Mr. McAdoo...
Soon the chided mail carrier complained to his union. Followed last week, a one-day "sympathetic strike" of all the postal employes in Austria...
...onetime general manager of the Associated Press, son of the late Herbert S. Stone, who was drowned when the Lusitania was sunk. The portrait was made two years ago when young Mr. Stone left Yale and commenced to sell bonds for Lee, Higginson & Co. of Chicago. No doubt, his mail will soon be choked with sentimental gush from shop girls, waitresses, home girls, hoydens; with offers of vaudeville and cinema contracts...