Word: north
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile, back and forth through the white front door in S Street, passed many people-friends bearing advice, advisers looking for friendship-Indiana's Watson, long of leg and small of eye; Mellon the benign; square-jawed Borah and mouse-grey Good, North Dakota's boyish Nye, Iowa's heavy-footed Brookhart. They talked of many things to the Next President and went away holding their tongues...
President Monroe imported $60,000 worth of "heavy substantial furniture" from France. President John Quincy Adams caused a public uproar by installing a billiard table. The North Portico was finished by President Jackson, whose inaugural party for the Plain People nearly wrecked the interior...
...guest steps next into an oval room done in blue and gold. Formal gilt chairs stand at attention along the silken walls. The north end of the room is roped off with a plush cord, behind which, beholding the spectacle, stands an especially splendid group of persons, the prime guests of the evening...
...left over from the old regimes of the detested war lords who held sway over China like robber barons before the Nationalist conquest. To picture the situation in terms of U. S. geography, imagine President Chiang in New Orleans (Nanking) hearing that civil war has broken out on the North Atlantic seaboard (in Shantung), and also far inland on a tributary of the Mississippi (in Hunan). China's North Atlantic is the Yellow Sea, and her Mississippi is the great Yangtze-Kiang...
...Moines and Omaha. Then if we could also have the Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville, and the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton, and build a new line south from Toledo through Ohio, we would have our northern arm (Toledo to Chicago) and our southern arm (to St. Louis) nicely connected with three splendid north-and-south railroads. In the East, we should have the Reading and the Jersey Central (25% of whose stock we control anyhow) and the Western Maryland (which we also already control but on account of which some persons are bringing anti-trust proceedings against us). We certainly have to have...