Word: noon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week to the executive office lobby went Clark Brown of Climax, Mich. He, too, had a manner and for three hours sat at a table scribbling a message to the President. He went away to return again at noon, insistent upon putting in the Hoover hand his message?"The Final Edict of Heaven and Earth." When he was stopped, he became violent, lost his manner, tussled until bodyguards overpowered and hospitalized him. Hoover bodyguards are now on their toes, manner or no manner...
...last week a sudden spatter of rain drove Rye Cove school children into their plain board study-rooms before the noon recess ended. They were just wriggling themselves quiet in their seats when, down the valley, came a loud howling noise. The sky blackened. A monster wind came twisting between the mountains. It swooped down, caught at the schoolhouse, ripped off the roof, scrunched the rest of it to bits, scattered things insanely. Then it went roaring away, up over the ridge...
...preaching was noteworthy. It was, however, in his personal contacts with all sorts of men that he showed his greatest strength. His hours at the Wadsworth House were never long enough. In two successive years, 1927 and 1928, he conducted the official service of the University at noon on Memorial Day, a service which military and patriotic organizations in Cambridge beside the University public attended. The service of last year will be long remembered. His experience of war made him an eloquent advocate of peace. His own self-sacrifice, with his high patriotism, pointed his appeal for our national participation...
...third noon, a gust of wind blew away the Prime Minister's manuscript, and he not only chased after it but was stooping with his back to the camera when "Big Ben" began again, "Clang . . . clang . . . clang...
...assignments, however simple, will not indorse any course in which the facts to be mastered must be gotten through voluminous reading in assorted text books. Still another, who likes to spend the week-ends away from Cambridge, will not take any course which comes between the mystic hours of noon and 1 o'clock, for the very simple reason that the fastest train for New York leaves the South Station...