Word: roses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alejandro Cesar, newly appointed Minister of the Diaz Government of Nicaragua, presented, his credentials at the White House last week. President Coolidge told him that the U. S. marines would not stay in Nicaragua "longer than is necessary." ¶As it must to some, rose fever came last week to President Coolidge. It causes a slight irritation in the membranes of his nose and throat. "It is not serious," said the physicians, "but it is annoying." ¶Dover (N. J.) Lodge No. 541 of the Loyal Order of Moose invited President Coolidge to become a member. His secretary despatched...
...Reed of Missouri rose. Necks craned in the galleries. Mr. Heflin prepared to receive a Voltairian scorching. Said Mr. Reed: "Mr. President, I do not know that we shall gain anything by prolonging a discussion of this kind. I am sorry it has occurred. So that I may remove all taint of suspicion that I speak from interested motives, I remark that I was born and reared in the Presbyterian faith. . . . I do not propose to interfere with the efforts of the Executive to protect the interests of the United States until and unless it becomes manifest that...
Clear-voiced,§ Mrs. Ferguson rose to speak. Her black eyes glittered like beads behind the octagonal lenses at either side of her hawk nose...
When Speaker of the House of Representatives Robert Lee Babbitt got up to speak, he roundly flayed the Fergusons. Then rose Mr. Moody. He spoke for less than five minutes. ". . . I ask, as did the Hebrew of old, that God give me now knowledge and wisdom to come in and go out before this people; for who can govern this people that is become so great...
...London music hall, wearing the uniform of his Queen (Victoria) and demand three cheers for every daughter of joy in the house. Theirs were, he shouted, the only bosoms on which the tired head of a British soldier could always find repose. By a miracle he was not cashiered?rose to hold the purse strings of the Exchequer...