Word: trappings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...smoke stains on the walls of Virginia freestone, it was painted white. Hence its name-the White House. To prevent another fire, Lieutenant Colonel Clarence O. Sherrill, Army engineer in charge of public buildings, has prepared plans for fireproofing the White House, now said to be a fire trap. The cost would be $400,000. He took his plans to the House Committee on appropriations. One of the Congressmen wanted to know whether it would not be cheaper to build an entirely new building. It would not. A new White House would cost about...
...student in the University interested in trap-shooting will be eligible to attend the meeting of the Harvard Gun Club in Randolph Breakfast Room this afternoon at 3.15 o'clock, when plans for the spring shooting will get under way. F. W. Potter '24, president of the club, will be in charge...
This year the club hopes to win the intercollegiate trap-shooting title which has been held by Yale for about the last 13 years. In the intercollegiate shoot last year the club took second place, losing to the RPI marksmen by four points...
...fall of the franc was a German "offensive," operating from Amsterdam. Poincare asserted that German business houses, using 13 billions of French notes held outside of France as "a means of maneuver," had stimulated an artificial fall by false quotations. He said that "bear" gamblers had fallen into the trap and that the franc was persecuted on exchange in London, New York, Amsterdam, Vienna, Milan. In time the movement was reflected in Paris, by wide dumping of National Defense Bonds and "short" selling by importers to protect themselves from the falling exchange...
...other hand, the doors of a bookshop take on an entirely new aspect to him who turns to go. He is assailed with an entirely unforeseen sense of obligation. The jaws of the trap close suddenly. The very unconcern of the salesmen, their perfect willingness to let him be, becomes a burden. He feels something like a moral obligation to buy. It seems the only fitting return for the hospitality of his welcome, for the reassuring absence of the officious floorwalker...