Word: massed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge); luncheons with the Ladies of the Senate (a carry-over from Second Lady days); posing for photographs; laying cornerstones, visiting hospitals, remembering to send flowers, answering mail. Mrs. Coolidge's mother was sick all last winter, too (and is still abed). The journeys from Washington to Northampton, Mass., were wearing. When she reached Brule in June, Mrs. Coolidge was in a run-down state for which three months of fresh air and rest were a not superfluous dose of tonic...
Preceding Nominee Smith on the above itinerary went a mass of literature, sent out by the G. 0. P., to show that he had never been regarded by the New York farmers as an especial friend. The chief document was a map showing that, of New York's 57 rural counties (outside New York City) Governor Smith carried only two the first time he was elected, 13 the second time, one the third time, four the fourth time. New York City ("Tammany") was the only area he carried all four times...
Hence the cat lovers' ire, the catting of Inventor von Opel, at a mass indignation meeting in Berlin of German Friends of Cats...
Ernest Henry Schelling, children's musician, suddenly cabled from Celigny, Switzerland, that he would play a wedding march over the trans-Atlantic wireless telephone to Manchester, Mass., when Anne Pullen Dennett, a friend's daughter, was being married. Her parents, prudent, employed John Wallace Goodrich, dean of the New England Conservatory of Music, to play Mendelssohn's march right at the wedding, clearly and on time. Later the Schelling performance crackled from a loud speaker...
Archbishop Michael Joseph Curley of Baltimore, last week celebrating mass at his native Athlone, Ireland, had a greater pair of soloists than ever graced his Baltimore service. Tenor John McCormack (also born at Athlone) and Soprano Lucrezia Bori (born at Valenzia, Spain, but summering with the McCormacks) sang for the archbishop...