Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Publix girls are, as usual, the best thing about the stage show. Their steps may pass through recognizable cycles as the weeks go by, but they are graceful and fair, and their costumes, like the stage effects, are proof of an architectonic imagination somewhere. But this week they sing. It's a talkie...
...have found, however, that when I was doing the right thing a great many unforeseen elements would come in and turn to my advantage. Presidents are broken down by outside enterprises. . . . I try to remember that there is only one ex-President living. ..." This was also the year of that strange luncheon of President & Mrs. Coolidge and Governor & Mrs. Alfred E. Smith...
...green days of the Republic, this Constitutional rite was. a solemn thing, freighted with great uncertainty. Last week's vote-counting became an occasion for 40 minutes of horselaughs and whoopee. The outward forms, the ancient lines and cues, seemed as comical to those Congressmen who bothered to attend, as would have been the spectacle of a gentleman in knee breeches and powdered wig riding down Pennsylvania Avenue in a sulky...
Opposition to a President may be a friendly thing, productive of large and pleasant rewards. Such a reward last week came to Representative Finis James Garrett of Tennessee, onetime printer, editor, teacher, lawyer, and now leader of the Democracy in the House. President Coolidge appointed him to the U. S. Court of Customs Appeals. Mr. Garrett had reached up for a Senate rung in the Tennessee political ladder last year, missed his grip...
Highway traffic, like many another thing, follows the cheapest route. Operators of the New Orleans-Pontchartrain toll bridge have made this unhappy discovery. The great span was born under politics, and politics in the form of free state ferries across the lake, caused its financial demise. This month, after a year's profitless operation, it went quietly into bankruptcy, unable to meet interest charges on its $5,500,000 construction cost...