Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...twice a week with Mr. Coolidge for four years. All that time they had guarded his confidential remarks with unwavering integrity, even masking the words which he did wish to reach the public by having them issue from the mouth of that journalistic ragdoll, "the White House Spokesman." Now, said they, in the name of all that was printable, why had Mr. Coolidge wrought this evil upon them- given his best interview of all time, not to one of their number, but to an angelic interloper from another estate? An interloper who had then sold his treasure to their newspapers...
...whole matter died away, but it was not forgotten. The loud grumbling of Delaware's Democratic Senator (see p. 10) was as nothing compared to rumors that presidential confidence could never again be respected as of yore; that the quaint rag-doll called "Spokesman" might be pitched aside and the President left without defense from his own tongue...
John Donne, the poet-preacher and devoted spokesman of "conceits" has been called with a certain cynical truth "the founder of a school of bad taste," "Donne" say Dryden, "affects the metaphysics not only in his Satires, but in his common verses where Nature only should reign, and perplexes the minds of the fair sex with nice specializations of philosophy when he should engage their hearts and entertain them with the softnesses of love...
Meanwhile in Washington, President Coolidge took up the Official Spokesman's megaphone; said very carefully that he had no comment to make on the reports from Geneva, but that the situation looked gloomy. He might have added that it is embarrassing. When the President receives the official invitations from the World Court members, he cannot accept them in their altered form without consulting the Senate, neither can he pigeonhole them after politely thanking Europe, All of which means that there will probably be another World Court squall in the Senate within the. next two years. Already the Senatorial "diehards...
...Simultaneously with the visit to White Pine Camp of U. S. Ambassador to Mexico James R. Sheffield, Spokesman Coolidge announced that U. S. business in Mexico was suffering far less interference than formerly and thus the present Mexican policy would be continued...