Word: papered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...blank that he was going to be "bumped off" last night, probably in cold blood. The unfriendly import of the note precipitated a furore in Cambridge police circles, possibly second only to a Harvard student riot scare. Photographic copies of the note, the fingerprints of the child on the paper, an exhaustive investigation of police archives for possible data on "Feagan's gang", formed part of the attempt to trace the criminals to their lair. The Boston Globe gets excited and suggests a crime in front page headlines...
...been my privilege to observe the development by my father's architectural firm of the group plan of several colleges, first on paper, then in reality. Two of these, like Harvard, have had to adjust themselves to existing structures, but have yet succeeded in presenting a symmetrical whole. It is, therefore, astonishing to realize that it has been left to a committee of the Student Council to suggest what should have been solved in the office of Coolidge, Shepley, Bullfinch, and Abbott. It is not my purpose to criticize the work of this capable firm (although they have designed...
Unpleasant little things may have afflicted Massachusetts Republicans on Election Day, but national good fortune has its redeeming features. And so "the political plum tree," announces a news despatch in a Boston Paper, will he loaded down with "2000 luscious jobs" when the federal census is take in 1930. Most of the workers will receive only from $80 to $200 for two weeks work, but for those who are more deserving, there are a number of "very fat" positions as supervisors. Evidently the only question worrying the leaders of the Grand Old Party in the Bay State is just...
...Governor Johnston had consulted him frequently during the impeachment proceedings. Astrophysical phenomena can cause no end of things "from short skirts to foaming-at-the-mouth legislatures," said Mr. Lewis. Perhaps he was thinking of two Oklahoma legislators who paused in debate, last fortnight, to threaten each other with paper cutters...
...white stone library is not part of Mr. Morgan's residence. It is a Grecian marble treasure house, enclosing two lofty rooms of sombre Renaissance magnificence. One contains the great financier's desk, with a paper weight impossible for a child to lift because it is of pure massy gold. The other room is the library proper, with a huge hearth, on either side of which stand ancient columns of lapis lazuli. Around the library runs an overhanging gallery; and the walls are tiered with volumes more precious than gold itself. The effect is solemn and unostentatious, since...