Word: trip
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President's known feeling that he should stay near Washington this summer. There was also the Jardines' dinner, which President Coolidge had to attend alone, Mrs. Coolidge not feeling well enough, after her cold, to go out of doors until three days later. There was a holiday trip to Alexandria, Va., to celebrate Washington's Birthday, and there was a new harbor, at Hollywood, Fla., to be blasted open by the touch of a button. Eclipsing all these there was Flood Control, around which the Coolidge week revolved...
Governor Fuller said: "If it has done you as much good to listen as it has me to deliver this, you're all feeling elegant right now." He was full of vim, having just returned from a Packard motor trip through Florida with golf at the stops. He was bustling about Massachusetts at a great rate, telling how the colleges should be run† getting after his Attorney-General for what looked like scalawaggery,** and booming other men so generously that in a speech to a large bevy of clubwomen he slipped into an absurdity. "I would like...
...Queen, chosen more for her social graces than for Atlantic City qualifications. This year she was Miss Betty Watson, daughter of Banker Eli T. Watson, last year's Rex. The new Rex was Leon Irwin, insurance man, to whom Mayor Walker drank his only champagne toast of the trip...
...strength, inasmuch as, with the exception of Captain J. N. Barbee '28, the starting lineup consisted of second team material. Neither A. W. Slocum '28 nor H. T. Wenner '30, the two regular forwards, will be able to start because of injuries, although the former wil make the trip...
...then the Mongolia of the American Line, whereas Cunningham was right in line for the post, being skipper of the George Washington-were inclined to mix sympathy with their blame last week. "It was jolly bad work," said one of them, "but jolly worse luck. On his very first trip, too-tch, tch. Maybe Hartley left his luck on that Leviathan...