Word: righte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...boded news?perhaps?when Mr. Creager walked into the White House last week, because early in November, when the Coolidge "choosiness" was at its foggiest, Mr. Creager was reported to have promised, in a characteristically red-headed moment, to walk right into the White House some day and "pound on the desk" and ask President Coolidge "just exactly what he meant by choosing not to run." People on the Rio Grande wanted to know, and the red-headed rooster thereof would find...
...sister, who was at the White House: 'Come on over,' she said, 'Wernie wants to talk to you.' She always called the Pres ident 'Wernie.' I went over and found the President sitting all alone in his office and evidently very depressed. He said, 'Merry Christmas,' reached into a right-hand drawer of his desk, pulled out a plug of Piper Heidsieck and took a chew. He got up and looked out on the White House garden and said: 'Help yourself to a cigaret...
...took a cigaret, lit it, and went over and stood beside him. He said: 'This is a hell of a Christmas.' I asked him what was the matter and he replied: 'Everything is the matter.' I gathered from his mutterings that things were not all right with him in his domestic life. In this same conversation the President told me that there were things going on in the public business that he didn't approve but that he was helpless to stop them...
Action: the King-Emperor approached a huge power press and thrust into it, with well simulated carelessness, not only an object to be pressed but also his right hand. As the huge plunger crashed down, perturbed eyewitnesses could barely follow the lightning movement of a rubber guard which brusquely pushed the royal hand & forearm to a safe distance...
...urged on purely public grounds. . . . During the existence of the National Liberal Party, until after the general election of 1923 the fund was administered by the whips of the party without reference to me. When the party dissolved the administration passed to a committee of three former whips, the Right Hon. Charles A. McCurdy, K. C.; Sir William Edge and Major Gwilym Lloyd George,** who are still members of the Fund Committee. I was never even consulted, except on large questions of policy...