Word: occasionals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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¶ The President sat in a grandstand and listened to a speech. "Every American boy ought to want to be President of the United States, but when he develops and finds his real work that work may be even more important than being President. . . ." The speechmaker was Gutzon Borglum, the...
William S. Vare, U. S. Senator-elect* from Pennsylvania, addressed the international convention of the Loyal Order of Moose in Philadelphia (see p. 28). Said he: "As a member of the Senate of the United States, a citizen of Philadelphia, and a member of the Philadelphia Lodge of Moose for...
Rear Admiral Hough, 56, reported the incident to his superior, Vice Admiral Clarence Stewart Williams, Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Asiatic Fleet. He recalled, too, that while commander of the Yangtze patrol, the post he still occupies, he narrowly escaped death while playing golf on the Hankow course...
Voices in the crowd: "Take your hats off! Hats off, there! (The 25% of curiosity-seekers kept them on - Some of them old, dilapidated ones, specially worn for the occasion. But there was no violence.)
On the occasion of Colonel Lindbergh's official visit to Dayton there was no scowling, no muttering. City and county offices were ordered closed at noon. No department store displayed satirical advertisements. Nothing was said about back alleys. And the Dayton Daily News said: "Lindbergh Lasts. . . . The longevity of this...