Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dull week for the President. At press conference on Tuesday he had next to nothing to say. This seemed too bad in view of the fact that there was present an unusual number of foreign correspondents, especially British-arrived in Washington to watch what Congress does about the Kellogg Treaty and the cruiser-building bill, and to get background for the inauguration of the Hoover regime. President Coolidge took the opportunity to explain to the foreigners that the reason he has the U. S. embassies abroad hand out copies of his speeches-such as the Armistice Day announcement about naval...
Thinking of nothing much else to say, the President turned to Secretary Everett Sanders. What could he suggest? Secretary Sanders murmured something about the Last Message to Congress. Ah, yes. President Coolidge stated that he was working on a message to Congress, that he expected to have it ready before Congress Is ready to hear...
...civilization, is now attracting world-wide attention. Here are prospects bright enough to arouse the slowest imagination. Many institutions, American, English, French, German, are wide awake. Dr. Pfeiffer has just written from Bagdad: "There are to be seven archeological expeditions besides our own in Iraq this year, they say the greatest number of excavations ever known and the best equipped...
...large number of samples, chiefly of bright paid patterns, makes a deep impression upon the outer world. The idea that a garment has crossed the ocean gives it a prestige not attainable by other means; and, in speaking of one's winter wardrobe, it is much better, to say "I'm going to send a line to my man," that "I'm going in to the tailor's." Prices, above all, should be estimated in pounds, shillings, and pence, and be aired in at least every third sentence...
...either a very loose sack or a very close-fitting cut-away-- there is nothing meaner than a mean between two elegant extremes. The waistcoat should be cut high in the neck and long in the waist; a single breast makes display enough. Trousers, it is needless to say, should be at least eighteen inches in diameter. Black frocks have been worn for some time of an afternoon. Their days are numbered. The Jews have got hold of them of late; they have become rather tigerish; and blue, reaching fully to the knee, are now considered fully as good form...