Word: solider
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge apparently holds most of the trumps in the bidding for the nomination. But even if he outbids his rival Senator Johnson, there is always the possibility that the Democrats will call a higher suit. Mr. Coolidge represents the solid conservatism of the country; Senator Johnson has apparently espoused a flabby liberalism; in the background may lurk the man--Democrat more likely than Republican--who will ride the rising tide of radicalism and reform into the presidency...
...middle-aged bookseller of Riceyman Steps, Clerkenwell, and of Violet Arb, well-to-do widow, past 40 who had recently inherited the confectioner's shop across the way, was an odd but happy linking together of two penny-pinching temperaments. The grand passion of Henry's life was for solid cash ? a passion so strong it attained the proportions of self-sacrificing heroism. When he discovered on the eve of his marriage that Violet had actually been paying their mutual charwoman, Elsie, less than he, he glowed to think what a wonderful wife he was getting. So he wedded...
...avoided this fall, and any racing intentionally barred. In consequence no special training period at high speeds has been necessary, and the time has been employed in teaching the men the fundamentals of the Stevens system. The fall season may have seemed rather drab in many respects, but a solid foundation is there now and may be depended upon to bear elaboration next spring...
...Manila, Governor General Leonard Wood turned his solid back on Manuel Quezon and the Collectivists howling in the Filipino Legislature and went off to look into the troubles of the Moros on the Island of Min- danao. Apparently he had forgotten the disputants behind his back. Apparently the War Department agreed perfectly that he should...
...Bowdoin, Dr. Donald B. MacMillan's boat now in the Arctic (TIME, Sept. 10). Fin- ally an amateur operator at Prince Rupert, B. C., 2,200 miles from Greenland, and later the station of the Calgary (Alberta) Herald, caught faint and fragmentary messages in Morse, reporting the Bowdoin frozen solid in the ice floes of Smith Sound, at about 79° latitude, some 706 miles from the Pole. This is the strait separating northwest Greenland from the large group of islands called Ellesmere Land. Captain MacMillan is not seeking to reach the Pole but will stay in the Arctic zone...