Word: may
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...problem. He went happy, gay and debonair because a little bird had told him he would be Attorney General when, soon, Vermonters Coolidge and Sargent had retired into history. Though nothing more than a bird would stand sponsor for this piquant prediction, it was one of two things which may definitely be put down as sure about the Hoover cabinet...
...Secretary of the Treasury: Andrew William Mellon. Long exploded is the nonsense that businessmen sacrifice themselves when they take public office. Mr. Mellon has enjoyed being Number One finance man of the world's richest country. After one year under President Hoover, he will be 75, and may retire with the record of having graced three administrations. There are eight other cabinet positions. At least eight men were last week recommended for each of them. Mr. Hoover enjoyed listening to the fine things that were said about all of them. Mr. Hoover was neither stiff nor irregular. Even small...
...Luxor, Egypt, all travelers who pay may hear a fat & sleek native gentleman mumble and whistle and beat a tambour...
Present was Thomas W. Lament, partner of Mr. Morgan, and designated as his alternate. Absent was Thomas Nelson Perkins, designated by Mr. Young as his alternate. In significance and setting, the scene may be likened to an audience with Cesare Borgia or Lorenzo the Magnificent. Unfortunately for the dramatic effect no one was poisoned...
Heralded as the greatest social function of the year, the Junior Prom looses its night of fun and festivity with dinner this evening. Other dances may surpass the Prom in gorgeousness occasionally-not often-but there is, was, and ever will be One Prom, and only one. It is apart from every other form of social life...