Word: solids
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...black Cabinet chairs were lined up last week on the official posing ground back of the Executive offices. Out strode President Hoover with a grey hat, Vice President Curtis with a black one. Secretary of State Stimson marched out in a derby. Soon the full Cabinet was assembled. A solid semicircle of cameramen began snapping, clicking and cranking at them to get the first picture in more than a year of the President & official family. Secretary of Labor Doak stood at attention on the left next to Secretary of the Navy Adams for his first picture with his colleagues...
Next day 62-year-old Ruby Laffoon, oldtime lawyer and judge, presented himself on the Capitol esplanade to take the Governor's oath. Tall (6 ft.), solid (180 lb.), with crow's feet around kindly eyes, big mouth and a booming bass voice, Democrat Laffoon had won last month's election in no small measure by his ability to put names to faces. He first met Grover Cleveland when as a lad he had marched into the White House with a paper which he doggedly refused to give to any one but the President himself...
...ensure the Beaverman's nomination on the first ballot. During the campaign he took $25.000 from the Republican National Committee, set up separate headquarters, herded in Hoovercrats by none too creditable means. He induced Mr. Hoover to speak at Elizabethton, Tenn. and when the Republican nominee broke the Solid South, Col. Mann claimed large credit for his carrying Virginia, North Carolina, Texas. Florida and Tennessee...
...rugged country and fair to see. Fogs blew up off the Baltic and settle down over the hills. Great baronial estates sprawled over the land. Fat cattle dwelt in the fields, and tall grass swayed in the winds. There lived in this territory the proudest, bravest, most solid people the world had seen, the Prussian Junkers. They had rallied to the support of the Great Elector, they had fought for Frederick in the dreary days of Zorndorf. They had built the Prussian nation...
...story is not yet under way, A matrimonial agency, in a most improbable mix-up, sends to Mr. Huston's doorstep a young girl of nineteen to be his second wife and charwoman. She is not the solid matron that he wrote for, but a Gish girl, all pure and elfin and made for gauzed photography. She is frightened into marriage with Mr. Huston, whose name is Seth Something-or-other, anything but Parker; but it is plain to see that her destinies lie with Seth's more decorative...