Word: massed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Swampscott, Mass., 1925. The man who went to Swampscott had stepped into the Presidency as a silent, cautious, rather wry myth. He had proved himself safe. He suffered himself to be photographed pitching hay for the 1924 campaign and on March 4, 1925, the people let him put his hand on the Bible from which he had learned to read at the age of four, and swear to "Preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States...
...Georgia . . . and then one day he pressed a White House button and scampered away, chuckling boyishly at the seriousness of secret service men. It is not impossible that Calvin Coolidge gave the electric hobbyhorse a tickle in the ribs just before it was packed up and shipped to Northampton, Mass...
Thus the grandsire of today's J. P. Morgan actually coined Hearst Editor Brisbane's famed slogan: "Don't sell the country short." Mr. Junius Spencer Morgan had participated in the dry-goods business at Boston, Mass, before he removed to London and founded the English firm of J. S. Morgan & Co. Later, this became Morgan, Grenfell & Co., which is today the London office of Morgan...
...came as the lord spiritual, and for the first time since 1870 as the lord temporal. "Il Papa! Il Papa Consolatore!" chanted the kneeling multitude, "The Pope! The Pope Consoler!" Amid out bursts of the purest ecstasy the supreme pontiff then performed the miracle of the high mass, transforming things inanimate into the veritable body and blood...
...course of a 1,623-word mass-circular letter mailed last week, soliciting new subscriptions (and offering royal scarlet art-pattern atlases as a premium), wrote Publisher Wilfrid John Funk of the Literary Digest...