Word: portion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...market and purchased an eight-foot Norway spruce Christmas tree which they erected and decorated in the Blue Room of the White House. Mrs. Coolidge also despatched 50 bunches of roses from the White House conservatory to the sales girls of the store where she obtained the great portion of her "White House trousseau." At 5 p. m. the President pressed a button, lighting the great National Christmas tree rising 60 feet high in the oval south of the White House. A choir from the Epiphany Episcopal Church and a brass quartet of the Marine Band gave a concert...
AREN'T WE ALL?-Cyril Maude tickling that particular portion of the ribs sensitive to satire on the fallibilities of matrimony...
...these favored classifications had availed himself of his privileges or else had decided to stay home, the front doors were opened, and the General Public, which had been standing twenty deep for an hour or more was permitted to fill in the spaces left. Undoubtedly a considerable portion of the General Public had leaked in through the side doors, which were intended one for "Students and friends," and one for the "Faculty and friends" only. Due to the difficulty of distinguishing the General Public from the Faculty and friends, not to mention the Students and friends, it was quite impossible...
...Major General Lansing H. Beach, chief of Engineers of the War Department, reported that the upper portion of the White House both structurally and as a fire hazard was unsafe. A matter of some $400,000 is needed for renovation...
...double span of football life has been the portion of E. W. Garbisch, Captain-elect of the Army team for 1924. Seven years ago Garbisch was awarded his university insignia at Washington and Jefferson. Entering West Point in 1921, he was enabled to continue his career owing to the nonexistence of the regular intercollegiate football restrictions...