Word: presse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...younger set in Washington-his daughter is at Bryn Mawr. He is well liked in the Senate, is labeled a "fair" Senator, honest, conscientious, colorless. Every year he makes a few carefully prepared speeches, reads them in a conversational tone without gestures and carefully sends copies to the press gallery for distribution...
...cloak of secrecy which has concealed the names of the Crimson backfield which is slated to get the call for the opening clash of the season has finally been withdrawn and the gentlemen of the press who are covering Harvard football may once again lapse temporarily back into the even tenor of their ways. Not for some time have the University coaches had such a promising array of ball-carriers from which to choose a couple of versatile quartets. But it is safe to say that those who answer the referees starting whistle tomorrow may well be forced to give...
...greatly surprised at the comment my stray remark caused in the press. Lately I have received newspaper clippings from places as distant as Cape Town, Madras, and Ceylon. I don't mind what editors say about me, having been one myself. But I do dislike to be misunderstood...
...Secret Service Allan Henry Hoover, the Presi dent's younger son went to Harvard's Business School, where Herbert Clark Hoover Jr. had gone before him.* After reading a telegram from his father, which forbade him to speak for the "talkies," Allan Hoover allowed himself to be press-photographed, went about his Business...
Yale's move, no different than that of Harvard, has been distorted through the agent of a curious sensational press into an object of ridicule for which the unfortunate chance remark of President Angell can not be held solely responsible. This journalistic white lie evokes the unintelligent indignation of prattling flappers where a more fortunate representation might have conveyed a point of view that in its larger aspects can hardly be said to be unintelligent...