Word: watchfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chilly drizzle to fire at some clay pigeons on the club grounds. He broke 19 out of 25. Next day he tried it again, but missed the first few. He asked Col. Starling if there was anything wrong with the trap. No, said Col. Starling, but let the President watch out for the strong crossing wind...
Little reception knots formed about the House floor. Veterans, committee chairmen, held court. The four women members, all in black, greeted their many admirers. New York's Snell (Rules Committee) stood behind his aisle table, frowning, sharpening a pencil with a blunt watch chain knife. Leader Tilson beamed at his flock and rearranged neatly typed resolutions on blue paper. The galleries, splotched with color, were long ago overflowing. Mrs. Alice Longworth, the Speaker's wife, was there, incognito, because she failed to remove her brown hat and reveal her gleaming hair...
...dull week for the President. At press conference on Tuesday he had next to nothing to say. This seemed too bad in view of the fact that there was present an unusual number of foreign correspondents, especially British-arrived in Washington to watch what Congress does about the Kellogg Treaty and the cruiser-building bill, and to get background for the inauguration of the Hoover regime. President Coolidge took the opportunity to explain to the foreigners that the reason he has the U. S. embassies abroad hand out copies of his speeches-such as the Armistice Day announcement about naval...
Past citations still current: Dry Martini, Excess Baggage, The Night Watch, Kriemhild's Revenge, The Patriot, The Crowd, His Private Life...
This afternoon the Vagabond finds himself with no choice but to follow the crowd to the Union to watch the turn of the tide reflect on the grid-graph. Lesser considerations must stand aside as the backs go tearing by. Rarely does the Vagabond feel the urge of mob psychology, that inexplicable longing to go and do likewise, but stirring considerations like those afoot today whirl him willy-nilly to the Union. In connection with this subject the Vagabond finds that there are some interesting lectures which he recommends...