Word: pressmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President was saved 30,000 shakes. ¶ In a talk to a luncheon club Dr. Coupal advanced the theory that everyone should exercise three times a day to the point of being breathless. This advice, however, Mr. Coolidge is not believed to follow. ¶ The President indicated to pressmen that the U. S. will not accept the invitation received last week to send a U. S. representative to Geneva, Sept. 1, to discuss under the auspices of the League the Senate's World Court reservations with the nations concerned (see THE LEAGUE, p. 10). ¶ The President published abroad...
...battalions of pressmen he declared with a twinkle, "A young girl would not take me and I would not take an old one. Whom could I marry...
...over the country little knots of pressmen guardedly voiced their secret glee at what they considered a body blow to the Administration's "spokesman" system. Famed Washington correspondent Frank R. Kent of the Baltimore Sini, who has consistently twitted Mr. Coolidge on one ground or another ever since he appeared at Washington as Vice President, was openly delighted last week. He gloated: "Mr. Kellogg had a nervous fit. There was perturbation in the Coolidge circle. The trouble was they had been thinking in terms of domestic publicity, not world publicity. What they got was world publicity, and a large...
...London an august glass door was smudged by curious noses (belonging to pressmen who had been barred along with all other observers from the courtroom). Above each nose a pair of eyes peered intently at five learned judges, at a culprit quite as learned as they. Eyebrows were lifted all round because the five judges were defying tradition and sitting without wigs or gowns?an event said to be without English legal precedent during the last century...
...little newspaper was founded by big minds. It was the Picayune. Always this paper has been honest and upright in its reporting. Always it has been respected by pressmen, which is a sharp criterion. To work on its staff was a pleasure and an education, as realized by such famed personages as George Wilkins Kendall (one of its founders and a Texan pioneer), Lafcadio Hearn, Walt Whitman, Irwin Russell, Page M. Baker, Pearl Rivers (Mrs. Nicholson, mother of Leonard K. Nicholson, President of the Times-Picayune Publishing Co.), Stephen Crane, George W. Cable, Brander Matthews, Henry Rightor, Catherine Cole...