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...first time a Republican President had ever made a visit of any duration in Virginia. Crowds cheered the Coolidge progress through Staunton and Waynesboro to the Swannanoa Country Club, overlooking the Shenandoah Valley. Thanksgiving gifts poured up the mountain-a monster fruit cake, a dozen quail, a juicy Virginia ham, six boxes of apples, a monster turkey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Skunked | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

Parched and stinking, Bahrein Island barely breaks the surface of the Persian Gulf. European pates soon addle, uninsulated from its vicious sun. Before its troughs of rotting oysters, queasy European nostrils quail. Impervious to sun and stink, Arab traders hunker down, paddle the bubbling compost, comb it with their fingers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Superlatives Exhausted | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

...Quail are good to eat on toast, their little paws pointing like small handles over their plump stomachs. They should be hunted in the south and will be this year by Gen. John J. Pershing, Vice President Dawes, and perhaps Irvin S. Cobb. President Coolidge at this moment has a special setter in training, for what purpose no one knows, but possibly for quail hunting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Horns & Huntsmen | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

...Harding '30, J. K. Heard '30, and R. F. Quail '30 will be the speakers, and L. F. Hess sp, will act as alternate. The debate will take place at 8 o'clock in the Lampson Lyceum at New Haven...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIRST YALE DEBATE TONIGHT | 10/26/1928 | See Source »

...debating platform Friday evening against Yale in the first debate of the year, it was announced yesterday by J. M. Swigert '30, president of the Harvard Debating Council. The speakers will be J. F. Harding '30, J. K. Hurd '30, L. F. Hess, Sp. and R. F. Quail...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOUR MEN CHOSEN FOR YALE DEBATE | 10/24/1928 | See Source »

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