Word: presents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speaking on the ground that the more solemn a thing is the more unreal it is; 2) Some people object on the ground that the more solemn a thing is the more binding it is-the more it may commit the U. S. to an international course beyond the present intent...
...month) on Massasoit Street. Believers in the Grand Manner almost wished that there was a law providing that an outgoing President and First Lady should be established, by the People they have served, in a setting of suitable richness and proportions for the rest of their days. In the present case, the President will be remembered as the taciturn little man whose Administration was accompanied by unprecedented Prosperity and wry anecdotes such as the following...
...First Lady of the present case will be remembered as the cheerful, tactful, tasteful college woman who compensated for the President's solemnity by her own sparkle, spontaneity, friendliness. While he was nasal in his office, she was melodious at the East Room piano. While he made a name by the negative means of vetoes and economies, she knitted the name into a quilt which will be at the White House when the Coolidge Era is ancient history. Her quilt, finished long before "I do not choose" was written, says...
...Kohler, Wis.), father of grown sons, flyer of a speedy airplane, regent of the State University, adherent of Nominee Hoover. The La Follette candidate, U. S. Representative Joseph D. Beck, ran a Wet second by some 20,000 votes. A Dry third ran Fred R. Zimmerman, Wisconsin's present Governor...
Democratic though Manhattan usually is, the Phelps-Pratt contest was not wholly academic. The seat in Congress which each hoped to win is held at present by one William Cohen, shrewd Tammanyite, but formerly it belonged to Ogden Livingston Mills, now Under-Secretary of the Treasury. Mrs. Pratt vaunts no ambitions beyond representing the People in the Lower House-and living in official Washington. Mr. Phelps hopes, after serving in the House, to be Manhattan's, and perhaps New York State's, great and potent Republican Boss...