Word: openings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...next one. The chauffeur of the No. 1 car stepped on the self-starter. Wheels within groaned loudly but the motor would not start. The chauffeur gasped at himself and the motor. The Chief looked worried. Cameramen pressed in closer. Finally the engine spat, caught, hummed properly and the open car rolled down the gravel drive and out upon Pennsylvania Avenue. Calvin Coolidge did not look back at the White House. Mrs. Coolidge paused to say goodbye to policeman at the gate...
Calvin Coolidge came in. Everybody stood up and clapped. Suddenly a man threw open the centre door and announced in a great voice: "The President-Elect of the United States." And who should walk in but The Chief himself...
...Chief's hands lay on the open Bible. With the other hand raised toward the sky, and while a reverential hush held the umbrella-covered multitude, The Chief said...
...more appropriately, struck up "Hail to the Chief." The President said "Goodbye" to Mr. Coolidge, who edged off to catch his train home. A great many people followed Mr. Coolidge, but many more remained to offer moist hands to the President and first lady before they could enter their open automobile for the drive back to the White House...
...relatives for a family reunion. All along Comrade Trotsky had told the dictator's agents that he "refused"' to leave Russia at Stalin's "illegal" order, and seemingly the agents were so perturbed by this that they stopped the Trotsky special train for 12 days amid open fields to query Moscow for further orders. Every day the engine would chuff to a neighboring village and return with food, mostly canned. Amid this interlude of perplexity, and while the empty tin cans were piling up on either side of the track, Trotsky amused himself by re-reading several...