Word: righte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Such persons as had not seen the President since he left for South Dakota, were struck by something which had been imperceptible to eyes that have been seeing the President right along. The President is thinner. His new gray suit buttons neat and flat in front where his old blue suits used to bulge slightly...
...linen closets ("Wives of Presidents in years to come will bless the name of Mrs. Calvin Coolidge," said Mr. Brisbane); a new rug in the Red Room in the middle of which is an angry eagle with E Pluribus Unum above his head, with an olive branch in his right claws, arrows in his left. The eagle is glaring at the arrows and Mr. Brisbane said: "Wise bird, he knows that if he takes care of his arrows, the olive branch will take care of itself...
...British press received with little comment and no protest the dogmatic assertion of Sir Arthur Keith, president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, in session last fortnight at Leeds, that "Darwin was right," that men and apes had a common ancestor (TIME, Sept...
Died. Mrs. Julia Lawrence, 74, wife of the Right Reverend William Lawrence, onetime (1893-1927) Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts; in Readville, Mass...
...occasion of his 65th birthday. Mr. Rosenwald said: "I was lucky, not a genius. With rare exceptions, the man who accumulates wealth displays no more genius than the prize-winner in any lottery. It is by luck that a man gets hold of a good thing at the right time and more by luck that he holds...