Word: talked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Charles Gates Dawes walked his Chow dog Chung along the Olympic's promenade deck, puffed his underslung pipe. He was satisfied. Everything had been precise, prompt-his conference with the Secretary of State, his last talk with the President, his packing, his sailing. He had telegraphed to London asking the exact space allowance for bookcases in the U. S. Embassy, had promptly received statistics. Needing a private secretary, he had offered the diplomatic opportunity to rugged Nephew Henry Dawes. one year out of Williams College, oil company clerk in Columbus, Ohio. Nephew Dawes had promptly, diplomatically accepted. Promptest...
...exact origin of the Republican party few historians agree. When the Whigs held their national convention in New York City in 1852, the sidewalks buzzed with popular talk of a new party. Editor Horace Greeley of the Tribune seriously pondered the future with his friend Alvan Earle Bovay, Ripon Whig. The stiff, dignified, stoop-shouldered lawyer from Wisconsin insisted a new party be formed on the slavery issue, suggested to Editor Greeley the name Republican. On March 20, 1854 when the Nebraska-Kansas Bill was pending in the Senate, Lawyer Bovay called a meeting of 58 persons at Ripon...
...product of well-mannered Groton School (Groton, Mass.), where boys who read Shelley and play Mozart are often encouraged. Now 33, Robert Littell's youth included Harvard and the U. S. army of occupation in Russia and book reviews for the New Republic and many a big talk with famed Walter Lippmann, philosopher-editor of the New York World. In addition to his Post position. Broadway's Best Guesser also reviews plays, profoundly, for Theatre Arts Monthly. He is married to Anita Elaine Damrosch, daughter of Musician Walter Johannes Damrosch, granddaughter of the late great James ("Man from...
...British weekend in the country lasts from Friday to Monday. It is a pleasant though dull national custom. But guests from Town last weekend had plenty to talk about. Britain's "dullest election within the memory of living man" had dragged out its serpentine length and finally, suddenly snapped a cracker off its tail. Contrary to expert expectations,* final results snowed Labor with the greatest number of seats in the House of Commons...
...going to talk to you," said he, "on the necessity of being a snob ... a gentleman, belonging to the ruling class. You have got to take the rule away from the bootlegger, the politician and the man who came up from one suspender button. . . . Put on a front. One of the reasons for Harvard's greatness is that in all her 300 years she has put on a big front. Harvard never apologizes, never argues, never listens to criticism, but goes on calmly putting on her front and gets publicity for that very reason. What applies to the corporation...