Word: vermont
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sherlock Holmes appeared, looking for the Party that lost the last election. There was a drama called "Under the Slippery Elms (of Vermont)" wherein "Pa" Butler and "Ma" Stearns were raising the Third-Term Baby. They had many farmhands and chore-boys?Calvin, Borah, Dawes, Lowden, Longworth...
...States was chairman, two living ex-Presidents, the Governor of Massachusetts, and the Premier of Canada, Vice-Chairmen, had been appointed to represent the public. The members of the committee were prominent citizens of the United States and Canada headed by the Governors of Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine. Committees had also been designated by the Alumni Association and the Associated Harvard Clubs. These committees in collaboration with the University authorities arranged a carefully worked out schedule. On account of the smallness of Sanders Theatre it was decided that the President Emeritus should be greeted...
...executives in the nation. As head of the board of trustees of Johns Hopkins University, he is the mainspring of its present reorganization and expansion program. Once he said: "There is romance in this business. . . ." He referred to railroads, but he might well have been thinking of his early Vermont farmhood...
...party went to see Ethel Barrymore in The Constant Wife. At 7 p. m., what with a 24-pound turkey, the gift of Governor Sam A. Baker of Missouri, the climactic business of the day began. And then the little party of sons and daughters of Massachusetts and Vermont chatted through the evening...
Within the next three months it is possible that an English drawl may come rippling over the ocean with a "Hello--are you there?", to be answered by a crisp Vermont "Yes?" For George of Buckingham and Windsor, and Calvin of Washington and Plymouth are to inaugurate the transatlantic telephone service by what the Associated Press calls a "short conversation". And already the curious are wondering what will be the topic of conversation. Whatever it is it will prove food for columnists and Will Rogers; kings and presidents don't give each other a ring every...