Word: restfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Edward Everett (Dolly) Gann, Second Lady of the Land, last week set-at rest the misgivings of temperate Christian women. Mrs. Ludie D. Pickett, president of the Kentucky W. C. T. U., having heard that Mrs. Gann dined last month at the British Embassy, wrote and asked: "Is the honor and dignity of your country as dear to you as your own status in the social life of Washington? Did you for the honor and dignity of your country decline liquor at Sir Esme Howard's dinner...
...Gann's brother, Vice President Charles Curtis, continued last week to "rest up" between sessions of Congress. Once a jockey, he will go down in history as the Vice President (or as the President, if anything should happen to President Hoover) who liked to go to horse races, just as Grover Cleveland liked duckshooting, Calvin Coolidge fishing, Herbert Hoover building toy dams. In the minds of many a temperate Christian woman, horse-racing is almost as iniquitous as liquor but so far no prying soul has disturbed the Vice President's innocent pleasure. During the Spring he went...
...Graphic explained: "Mr. Gauvreau retires to assure himself of uninterrupted opportunity for an extended rest...
...territory. There is already approximately one U. S. motor car for every U. S. family. Comparatively speaking, the world market is a pedestrian paradise. Furthermore, out of a 1928 world production of 5.198,167 cars, the U. S. produced 4.358,748, or almost 85%. Thus the rest of the world has the capacity to absorb many more cars and the U. S. has the capacity to make them. The following table shows registration and production of chief automobile countries...
...Cutten said he was in the Market now "mostly for the fun of it." But he was a little tired of it and wanted a rest (he is almost 60). "I've never even been in Europe," he said. "I've never played at all, never had a chance to do anything but work." He was asked about a reported remark to the effect that if he had a son he would keep him out of the market with a ten-foot pole and another observation that most brokers were just "broke." He said that he meant the grain...