Word: placing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quiet little conversation, apparently the talk of two close friends. They had come out of the White House, gotten into step with each other and walked down the lawn, where Mr. President had halted, turned and with a sweep of his arm indicated what a really fine place to live the White House...
...Klan and the Anti-Saloon League are twin calamities working for the election of the Republican national ticket. Their practices are intolerable. Their intolerance is disgraceful. They have exhibited some of the meanest motives which ever had a place in American politics. What they offer as patriotism and public morality has protected or promoted some of the worst corruption...
Those who would have given their shirts to be on the sidewalks of New York, or in critical St. Louis, or in gaudy Los Angeles, were jumping rashly at conclusions. The only place, for which it was worth casting to the breeze a shirt, was Chicago, the most exciting city in the nation. This was not due merely to pineapples and racketeers. True, there were four bombings as the election approached, but they did not cause much damage and nobody bothered about them. They did not count. In Chicago an election means fun, excitement. Calliopes in the crowded Loop...
...response to a demand voiced by graduates and undergraduates a new recreation will take its place in the Hemenway program. Arising from the ashes of gym teams of previous years, tumbling will be organized under Coach Donald Snedder 2Ed., a graduate of the University of Southern California...
...imitator of it and the stories of his success at the French court crates a pictures of a great diplomat who was still unaffected and interested in the problems that perplex all of us. Professor Murdock will speak of Franklin this morning and also at the same time and place on Saturday...