Word: standing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Massachusetts Democrats, elated at the "messiness" of Republican politics, sought out one Marcus A. Coolidge, Fitchburg manufacturer, asked him to stand for the Senate. Alive to the added danger of a Coolidge Democrat, Senator Moses at the White House declared: "The name of Coolidge is exclusively a Republican asset in Massachusetts...
...making of these mighty mixtures go okra and sweet pimentoes from the South; peas, corn, lima beans from New Jersey and Delaware; red-hearted Chatanay carrots, in summer from the Finger Lakes (N. Y.), in winter from Brownsville (Tex.); yellow turnips from Nova Scotia; head rice (hard enough to stand cooking) from Patna on the Ganges River; wild Irish thyme, sweet marjoram; seasonings from Amberna and the Isles of Spice; carloads of ox-tails from the stockyards of Chicago...
...Here I am at camp after visiting Oxford," wrote Scout John Fridolin Streiff to his parents. "After two months of drought we brought the rain, and how! . . . Yesterday, just as we went to parade past the Review Stand a storm hit us. Wet? We got soaked. The Duke of Connaught reviewed us. Boloney! Day before yesterday I was in the India Corps for lunch. Boiled brown rice from India. Boiled in olive oil Indian style. Good...
...weeks of the American-Russian Chamber of Commerce tour was as much as adventurous Miss Cogswell and loyal Mrs. Ingalls could stand. Having startled fellow passengers and many a Volga boatman by appearing on the hot deck of a river steamer in lounging pajamas, they left the party at Tiflis in the Caucasus, announced their intention of climbing Mount Ararat "to look for traces of Noah...
...writing is writing," he said. ". . . [it] can be as direct, as noble, as fine as any other kind of writing. It is a record, bad or good, of the passing pageant of life." He predicted: "I think that we in America will survive the machine age. Mankind could always stand what would kill a dog. . . . Drink or casual sex experiments will get us nowhere. . . . It would be a proud day for me if I could feel in myself something of the beauty and dignity of the automobile in which I rode to this speaking...