Word: moods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...News gatherers tried to find out what President Coolidge might do when his term is up. In a carefree mood, he let it be known that he had no immediate intention to "locate at the other end of Pennsylvania avenue" (i.e. in Congress). Perhaps, he said, there would be a vacancy in the municipal government of Northampton, Mass. It was as a Northampton city councilman that President Coolidge entered politics 28 years...
MORROW'S ALMANACK-edited by Burton Rascoe-William Morrow ($2). Editor Rascoe, who seems to be aware of everything in the world, has concocted an oldtime almanack distinctly in harmony with the traditional mood of the season. To his aid have rushed a host of accomplished specialists with important contributions. Marc Connelly, playwright & seer, provides the general forecast for the approaching year; Critic Nathan suggests a breath-taking change in post-Volstead nomenclature; Banker Streeter* supplies a startling opinion of what 1928 will do for Big Business; Florenz Ziegfeld dissertates on his favorite topic; poems flow from many...
...week, from one hospitable ranch in northern Mexican states to another. On board were the new U. S. Ambassador to Mexico, Dwight Whitney Morrow (onetime Morgan partner), and tart-witted cowboy-clown Will Rogers. They, and other guests of the President, were privileged to see him in playful mood. At Pabellon Ranch, State of Aguascalientes, Senor Calles seated his guests around a bull ring. He had a surprise for them, he said. Quietly picking up a matador's red cape, he entered the arena...
...runs may read, but he who rows is likely to be hard pressed for time to do so. His whole existence becomes merged in rowing his mood, conversation, and every thought are dominated by it. Hence, no doubt, the socalled "vacant" expression said to characterise the rowing man when in the lecture room. He bears a great burden, for as he will tell you, on his back, or rather on his blades, he carries the college prestige...
...sits this evening, enveloped in the fragrant, pearly clouds of smoke from his Rey Odoro Perfecto--".. thy true lovers more admire by far Thy naked beauties--give me a cigar," says Byron--the Vagabond has fallen into what might be called a reminisceful mood. "Nothing", said Herodotus, "gives such weight and dignity to a book as an appendix", and he might well have paraphrased his own remark and said that nothing gives such dignity to a man as a genealogy. And so the Student Vagabond, having arrived at the ripe old age of three years, intends to delve into...