Word: straw
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whole day hearing about Mexico. He called in Secretary of State Kellogg to hear too. . . . Vice President Dawes was an entertaining White House caller. He accompanied 15 other Republican notables to a Coolidge breakfast and made great sport of small-eyed Senator Watson of Indiana for wearing a straw hat with his Prince Albert. When President Coolidge heard what the Vice President was tittering about he smiled and said: "Well, it's just about as proper to wear a straw hat with a Prince Albert as it is to smoke a pipe when you are wearing a Prince Albert...
Candidate Lowden's manager in Kansas City announced that each crusading farmer would be in uniform: overalls and straw...
...Polled 3 to 1 in favor of unbobbed hair for women in a straw vote decorously conducted by the Conservative Evening Standard. In opposing the concensus of his fellow peers, William Frederick Le- Poer-Trench, Earl of Clancarty doggerelled...
...Straw voted against bobbed hair 232 to 217, thus confirming the judgment of the Lords (see above...
...late to hear what the Mayor of San Francisco said to the Mayor of New York. Mayor-elect Edwards was there to inspect public utilities. Mayor Rolph of San Francisco was there on a holiday, with his high boots tucked under his trousers (as always) and wearing the first straw hat of the season. Just before Mayor-elect Edwards arrived, Mayor James J. Walker left town, as usual to make a speech...