Word: olds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...might have visited, and most particularly one as the guest of the President of the New Orleans Association of Commerce. You pictured everything under the sun from these libelous and scandalous persecutors, but you did not take any note whatever that it was my administration which had aroused the old time element, because: 1) We began to give school books to all school children of the state, so as to get them in the schools and cure illiteracy. 2) We began to open up night schools for adults, so that we might teach the people from 20 to 70 years...
...Hoover was a slender little gentleman who looked not unlike a brownskin edition of Secretary Mellon (but with wider lips). This, a very finicky gentleman with his own chef, an imposing retinue of secretaries, an in come of $3,000,000 per year and a family tree 900 years old, was the much-married Maharajah of Kapurthala in the Punjab, accredited representative to the League of Nations of Their Highnesses the Indian ruling princes. Precisely what he wished to discuss with President Hoover in private, the Maharajah of Kapurthala was not pre pared...
...Connecticut Ave., went President Hoover. There in bed lay his good old friend Theodore Elijah Burton, 77, suffering complications after an attack of grippe he had last month. It was the President's second call since the senator fell ill. He stayed some little time, the chunky, healthy, 55-year-old executive talking with, and listening to, the venerable legislator, scholar, statesman, peace-seeker...
...old but erratic friend of Charles Curtis of Kansas is William Allen White of Kansas. In his voluminous public writings, Mr. White once called Mr. Curtis "a nit-wit." But during the 1928 campaign he more or less retracted that and helped the Hoover-Curtis ticket by throwing mud at Alfred Emanuel Smith...
...sorry for Harvard and Yale men; we're sorry for any man who goes to J, and we've walked up Sunset ourselves. They could bring cars, of course, and eliminate all necessity of hiking. Or they might do something restful like sitting in the shadow of the dear old tank. If they are willing to exert themselves just a little we think the rowboat on Sunset Lake could be kept afloat if bailed...