Word: panning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President's official entourage, said Secretary Everett Sanders, had best make ready their cutaway coats and pin-striped morning trousers. Silk toppers, patent leather shoes, spats and a stick would be the correct accessories. Nowhere, the inference was, is a greater premium set upon costume than at a Pan-American Congress and at this Congress, none must outplume the U. S. delegates, official or self-attached...
...Charles Evans Hughes as their Chairman, their distinguished names were Morgan Joseph O'Brien, Henry Prather Fletcher (U. S. Ambassador to Italy), Oscar W7. Underwood (until 1927 a U. S. Senator). Secretary James Brown Scott of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Director Leo Stanton Rowe of the Pan-American Union. Three other delegates whom President Coolidge had appointed were not present to receive instructions: Dwight W. Morrow (U. S. Ambassador to Mexico), Noble Brandon Judah (U. S. Ambassador to Cuba), President Ray Lyman Wilbur of Stanford University...
...Congress. Of all the delegates, Dr. Rowe was perhaps more conversant with the nature of the Congress than anyone. The Union of which he is chief is the permanent agency for that "good will," "co-operation," "understanding" etc., etc. which the periodic Pan-American Congresses celebrate in top hats and cutaways (see p. 13). If asked to state reasons for the President of the U. S. signalizing the 1928 Congress by a visit and speech, Dr. Rowe might have explained in effect as follows...
Because on that day President Coolidge will visit Cuba? Because on that day good will in the Western Hemisphere is to be promoted by the Pan-American Congress at Havana? Is Jan. 16 a national holiday, a hero's birthday, an armistice...
Five days afterward came a sudden thaw. From ice into water turned many a stream-including the Serpentine, that storied streamlet of Hyde Park, London, in which swam Peter Pan. Thus, it became possible to hold last week, the famous 110-yard Serpentine Swimming Race which is sponsored each year by Sir James Matthew Barrie. Last week he stood at one end of the Serpentine under an old, sopping umbrella and awarded to the winner of the race, one H. J. Edwards, the handsome, annually donated Peter Pan...