Word: manly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus did Mr. Coolidge, in his own words, "retire voluntarily from the greatest experience that can come to mortal man...
Edward Everett Gann, an unassuming man, long led a quiet life in Washington. He practiced law, he made some money. He never troubled his head about Society and Society never troubled its head about him. Edward Everett Gann was a happy man...
...take up residence, with the Vice President and Mrs. Gann, in a twelve-room suite at the Mayflower Hotel. Then he found himself being led off to great formal dinners with people he didn't know and who obviously didn't know him. A round-faced, bespectacled man, shorter than the large Mrs. Gann, the Vice President's brother-in-law sidled into inconspicuous drawing-room corner, spoke when spoken to, wore a mask of polite pleasure...
Meanwhile discussion of a successor to Mr. Herrick's high diplomatic post began. Four names emerged: Frank Billings Kellogg, John Joseph Pershing, Alvan Tufts Fuller, Frederick Henry Prince. President Hoover was faced with the necessity also of finding a new man to represent the U. S. at the court of St. James's. His purpose was to fit a smooth-working team into London and Paris. For the London post only one name really loomed: Charles Gates Dawes...
...Kellogg denied that he would take a diplomatic post after four years as Secretary of State. A special act of Congress would be necessary to make General Pershing an Ambassador for the statutes now prohibiting a military man, active or retired, to enter the diplomatic service. The Sacco-Vanzetti case is held to militate against the chances which onetime Governor Fuller of Massachusetts has of going to Paris where the "radical" tide often runs strong...