Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Coolidge went quietly to his old Vice Presidential home at the New Willard. He saw numbers of notables and said little. The members of the Cabinet sent their resignations? Secretaries Hughes, Mellon, Weeks, Daugherty, New, Denby, Work, Wallace, Hoover, Davis. All were refused. The Cabinet would stay on. The old regime would continue...
...nineteenth century saw. Babbitt succeed Napoleon as conqueror of the world. Yet the same century saw the most extravagant, play of individualism of any age in history. Chateaubriand, Hugo, DeMusset, Devigny in France--Burns, Byron, Shelley, Keats in England...developed their genius in the face of, and often in protest against the deadening influence of commercialism, industrialism, and materialism...
Although denying emphatically any such exciting and adventurous experiences as the CRIMSON reported him to have had he did admit under pressure to having hunted for five days in company with his brother during which time he "saw" a lion, and shot a few African bush animals of the same genus as the American skunk...
Shaw at his best--and that is saying a good deal--was what the audience at the Tremont saw Monday night when "Saint Joan" opened its Boston run. The audience knew that it was Shaw at his best, for although Miss Arthur took most of the curtain calls, the applause was stimulated by the play itself, and the handclaps were meant for the other side of the Atlantic...
Said Chairman Borah of the Senate Committee: "I saw a statement . . . that you contemplated an expediture...