Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contained no Coolidges, going only from "Abbe" to "Barrymore." Subsequent volumes will be published at the rate of three per year, but President Coolidge will not live to read about himself in the Dictionary of American Biography. No person or personnage is given space therein until he is dead (see...
...final personal swan-song was: "I am just as anxious to see them [Democratic principles] succeed as I was when the party honored me with the nomination, and with all the vigor that I can command...
...though not hinted at in the Smith speech, suggested itself as follows: Smith thinks the Congress is the medium through which the Democracy should start working up to 1932. The Democrats are now a weak minority in the Congress. Smith is "just as anxious" as before his nomination to see the Democrats come to glory. Smith has resolved never again to seek public office. But, if his anxiety for his party is as great as he says, might he not some day be persuaded to let public office seek him? Might he not, perhaps, be persuaded to enter Congress? This...
Last week in Manhattan the National Horse Show was celebrated (see p. 36); in it, the most spectacular events were those in which Army officers from Poland, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Canada, and the U. S. competed against each other. The idea was to determine which one had the best horses and riders; the means of deciding was to have each team ride its mounts around the ring, over jumps. If a horse knocked off the top-bar of a fence (a grave fault), it counted points against him; if he touched it with a lagging hoof (a minor fault) perhaps...
President and Mrs. Lowell will be at home and glad to see all men who are students in the University at their house, 17 Quincy Street, tomorrow afternoon between 4 and 6 o'clock...