Word: rocker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover and Mellon sent a chair to Coolidge the other day. The former President, being a man of very few words, won't thank them until they have sent two beds, a table, a rocker and some kitchen utensils." On the stage, Eddie Cantor's props- comparable to Will Rogers' gum and spinning ropes-are blackface makeup and white-rimmed spectacles. He accentuates his lines with eye-googling and eccentric prancing. When he wrote his first book a year and a half ago (My Life Is in Your Hands, autobiography), he required the aid of a ghostwriter...
...Rocker...
...base hits Gilligan. Williamson Three lase hits Woods, Donaghy. Prior Stolen bases Rocker, Rigsbec, Blesh. Tickner Gilligan, McGrath, Batchelder Struck cut by Whitmore 8, by Lipp 5. Passes on balls Whitmore 4. Lipp 3. Wild pitch Lipp. Passed ball Oliver. Double play Whitmore, Donaghy, Prior, and Donaghy Umpires. Stafford and Halloran. Time...
When President Coolidge settled back in his old green wicker rocker just before leaving White Pine Camp, and droned along for an hour or more, opening his heart to a curly-headed man with angelic eyes (TIME, Oct. 4); and when the angelic one, Publicist Bruce Barton, discoverer of a Man and of a Book that Nobody Knows, went forth and told The People all the homely facts that the President had revealed about himself, it seemed that nothing but good could come of it to every one. The President was apparently one of the most contented mortals ever heard...
...green rocker, a kitchen chair, an advertising man on the floor...