Word: parte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Under the title of "Paint-Brush Song" Mr. Derek Beamish (stet) yearns boozily in alternate rymeless and meterless stanzas to be as cool as brook water and as warm as seasand. The seasand is about the hottest part of this effusion and our personal suspicion is that what Mr. Beamish needs is a cold head towel and a turkish bath...
...initial contest was won from William and Mary by a score of 14 to 5. Frequent errors on the part of the Virginians aided the Harvard batters while Howard Whitmore '29 held the home team in check throughout. The slugging of B. H. Ticknor '31 who slammed out a double and a home run featured...
...inspection of his Virginia fishing preserve in Shenandoah National Park. He rode a horse ten miles through mountain woods, tramped three miles more on foot, picked out three camping sites between Double-top and Fork Mountains on the Upper Rapidan. In a black riding habit, Mrs. Hoover accompanied him part way. Forbidden to follow, newsgatherers and cameramen had a holiday...
...latter part of the administrations of two-term Presidents, he thought, showed "very little in the way of constructive accomplishment" and has "often been clouded with grave disappointments." These facts, coupled with his own desire, Mr. Coolidge gave as his reasons for retirement...
Citizen Coolidge said he was careful to take no part in the primary campaigns. He found no reason for his participation for "the party had plenty of [presidential] material . . . and the candidate should really be the choice of the people themselves." He admitted that a President could nominate his successor, but such a nomination, he felt, would often prove a handicap to the nominee...