Word: mount
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day the Roosevelts will show their guests Mount Vernon, going by water on the Potomac (lunch aboard). At Arlington, the King will wreathe the Unknown Soldier's grave. Dinner that night will be at the British Embassy, after which George & Elizabeth will go by train to Manhattan...
...Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa at 8:30 one morning last week, undergraduates dozing through their first class were suddenly awakened by a clamor of chapel and class bells. Soon student messengers rushed into their classrooms shouting: "War has been declared! Go to the chapel!" Five minutes later, as 600 excited undergraduates jammed into chapel, the organ played My Country, 'tis of Thee. To the platform marched the college dean, followed by an army officer...
Last week the U. S. House of Representatives devoted an afternoon to discussing asthma, its cause and cure. Said Congressman Frederick Cleveland Smith of Ohio: "Mr. Chairman, at Mount Gilead, Ohio, is located a laboratory that puts out a certain medicine known as the Nathan Tucker Asthma Remedy. A Food and Drugs Act passed last year would compel firms of this sort to cease prescribing by making a diagnosis through the mails. . . . I have practiced medicine for a good many years and have myself prescribed this remedy many times. . . . I know physicians who use it themselves. Just before I left...
...unfortunately there is no Forum in the Yard where members of the Classics Department may mount the rostrum and shout about "The Glory that was Greece" to the intellectual proletariat. The can only sit at their desks and hope that some students will be willing to gamble three courses on a pretty sure bet,--but three courses in a crowded schedule is a big ante. A great many men would rather lower the ante and take a smaller return...
...Political ears thought they heard President Franklin Roosevelt's first third-term announcement when he said at Mount Vernon, in a speech commemorating President George Washington's first notification of election: "That Washington would have refused public service if the call had been a normal one has always been my belief. But the summons to the Presidency had come to him in a time of real crisis and deep emergency. The dangers that beset the young nation were as real as though the very independence Washington had won for it had been threatened once more by foreign foes...