Word: peakes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...from the $43 7, 1 80 President Coolidge got along with. Said he : "Even the 'myth' of Coolidge economy disappeared with his regime. . . . From a semblance of econ omy, the Government had indulged . . in a riot of extravagance. . . . Under his [Hoover's] Administration expenditures have reached their peak. . . . Relief can not be hoped for under Republican rule. There must be a return to Democratic policies and Democratic simplicity...
What neither owners nor selection committee can yet be sure of is how well the new type mainsails, hung so that most of the wind-strain falls in the peak, will endure in the September wind of the actual races. In one race last week Whirlwind and Enterprise had their sails ripped out in a breeze that was just good racing weather...
Italians in the U. S. are now less thoughtful of the "old folks," their remittances having dropped sharply from a peak of $138,000,000 in 1925 to $25,000,000 in 1928. Czechoslovak immigrants quadrupled their remittances during the five-year period, to $17,000,000. Red though Russia is, she was allowed to receive from her U. S. immigrants...
...dumb. Lon, the second of four normal children, left school at the age of nine to take care of her. He could make his mother understand him by contorting his face into significant expressions. At 13 he went to work as a guide to tourists on Pike's Peak. Later he was carpet-layer, stage hand, vaudevillist. He married his singing and dancing partner; their son is a lawyer in Hollywood...
...Grace Goodhue Coolidge had another poem. "The Quest," published in Good Housekeeping (her first, "The Open Door," in memory of Calvin Coolidge Jr., was published in the issue of October 1929). "The Quest": Crossing the uplands of time, Skirting the borders of night, Scaling the face of the peak of dreams, We enter the region of light And, hastening on with eager intent, Arrive at the rainbow's end, And there uncover the pot of gold Buried deep in the heart of a friend. Macfadden is the name which the Chamber of Commerce of Redding, Calif, will bestow upon...