Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...then, the primary in Massachusetts approached. The same thing that was happening elsewhere began to happen in Massachusetts. This time President Coolidge wrote a note to Chairman Francis Prescott of the Republican State Committee and to him said: "Report has come to me that some persons in Massachusetts are proposing to write in my name as a candidate for President at the primaries on April 24. Such action would be most embarrassing to me and, while appreciating the compliment that is intended, I request that it not be done...
...name to be quoted because he and his State have been thoroughly anti-Smith, said: "Smith already is nominated." Other Washington politicos were discussing, not the probability of the nomination but its manner. Perhaps, they said, it could be managed by acclamation, which would be a very good thing for the chances of the Democracy in November, the precise reverse of much-haggled, half-hearted...
...crazy thing to do. Ray had never run a long race. No middle distance runner has ever been a great marathon runner; it is easier for a man who has never done any running at all to learn long distance pacing than for a sprinter to change his style to the loping, shuffling steps, between a run and a walk, used by marathon racers. Ray didn't try to change his style. He stepped out on his toes, pulling up his knees, as if the finish line were a mile away, and it was clear that he meant...
...Louisville, Ky. Times made a sage remark: "It is said that the cigaret is the first thing in the United States to reach the 100,000,000,000 mark. How about the matches that lighted them...
...believe, something less than two years ago that we suggested in these olumns that if the Lampoon were going to continue to shout "present" or even "accounted for" in the ranks of the current comics, the best thing it could do was to hoof it to the nearest Liggetts and insert its savings in a tidy stock of Enos Fruit Salts or some equally efficacious cathartic...