Word: turning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Delayed for two days because Mrs. Coolidge had been ill, the Coolidge Special rolled from Washington, D. C., to Superior, Wis. It was a quiet trip. The President made no back-platform speeches. He did not turn on the radio to listen to the G. O. P. convention...
...trimming his properties, consolidating them, fertilizing the hardy ones, weeding out the weak ones; so that a banker can look at them and say: "They are a sound unit." But Hearst no longer cracks the whip that terrorized his rivals and upset the standards of journalism at the turn of the century. He is now willing to compromise, or to stand...
...flight of Miss Amelia ("Lady Lindy") Earhart (TIME, June 11) when at length her trimotored Fokker Friendship left the water at Trepassey, Newfoundland, headed toward Britain. Would she disappear from sight, sharing the fate of Mrs. Frances Wilson Grayson, the Hon. Elsie Mackay, Princess Lowenstein-Wertheim ? Would she turn back as Viennese Lilli Dillenz had done? Would she be forced down as was Ruth Elder...
...alumnus from Europe, Bangkok, or Valparaiso to attend with his class-mates a few days of reunion near the Charles is latent in the man who sleeps obviously through the exercises heralding his farewell to Harvard, latent but almost never nonexistent. The very man who attempted through ennui to turn over a Brighton street car the night his Spread dance is found in the forefront of his class five years later hurling confetti at the Stadium jumping pits. The ritual of departure, prolonged as it may seem to the Senior, is the creation of men who have realized...
Suppose the Democratic nominee should turn out to be a really first rate fisherman. At least, Americans would be treated to a presidential campaign based on fundamental issues Daily, the Republican press would chronicle the piscatorial teats of Messrs. Hoover and Curtis, while the Democratic newspapers would retaliate with even more meticulous accounts of the day's catch of their protegees Pike for pickeral, trout for salmon, the battle would be fought bitterly every inch...