Word: placards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...began to read. At his first mention of Calvin Coolidge there was a 20-minute demonstration. The entire Convention stood and cheered?all except 28 men from Wisconsin, who sat tight. The surging delegates tried to tear the Wisconsin placard from its moorings, but the Wisconsin man held it tight. Cries of "Kick them out!" "Throw them out!" The band began to play The Star Spangled Banner...
Henry Cabot Lodge, senior U. S. Senator from Massachusetts: "In a cartoon labeled 'I Hate All Presidents,' Rollin Kirby of The New York World pictured me pointing to a placard- MY ACHIEVEMENTS-which read: 'I struck down Woodrow Wilson, I stultified Warren Harding, I betrayed Calvin Coolidge...
...impossible to comprehend the change in conditions since the war," he continued. "The cost of living has increased 98,500,800,000 times. When dealing in terms such as that, business dealings become baffling,--almost impossible. In every shop in Germany business is transacted by means of a printed placard very like a logarithm table. It is a sort of currency multiplication which varies each day as the value of the dollar goes up and the mark goes down...
...guests; numbering about 200 in all, including representatives of the Yale News, the Daily Princetonian, the Cornell Daily Sun, the Dartmouth, and the Tech News, adjourned to the Union for the dinner. During the dinner a placard is to be passed to every man for his autograph, the card to be kept as a souvenir of the occasion...
...special pains to avoid injuring the feelings of their students. In the face of discouraging facts the instructors struggle to arouse the interest of their classes, and, strange to say, they are unbelievably successful. As proof of his assertion that the department is openly hostile, Mr. Gambet cites the placard announcing the first meeting of the course. If Mr. Gambet or anyone else can construe that simple warning as an instance of the uncompromising attitude of the German Department, he must be of an exceedingly sensitive and, fortunately for the peace of the world, rare type...