Word: watching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coolidge weather kept the visitor near the "chunk stove." When he 'did go out it was to help drive posts for a tent the Secret Service men erected near the house, to stroll up the road with Mrs. Coolidge to watch son John pitch horseshoes with the neighbors...
...chivalry is passed, when women watched the ancestors of the noble Lords tilt in the lists. In this age we watch cowgirls at a tournament. So why should not women sit in this House? Would their presence detract from its dignity? If I were to say what I think...
...elms that line its street, the hills that watch its roofs, Lyme, Conn., is sentineled by artistic good usage, fortressed by aesthetic tradition. Last week in Lyme a plume of goldenrod was seen, which would have informed all but an outsider that an Art exhibit was in progress-for each year Art comes to Lyme with the goldenrod. This year, the exhibition satisfied all demands by being up to the standard of those in the past; to have made it noticeably better would have seemed to the natives a bit vulgar; to have made it worse would have been impossible...
...Stony Point stage is to be built of rough stone, and will equal that of the Metropolitan in size. The theatre will be of Greek or open-air type. Seats will be provided for 600, but 12,000 to 15,000 more will be able to watch the performances from the adjacent grassy slopes. There will also be dormitories and a library of music and folklore. Maestro Rabinoff, who lives nearby, has already built the "largest scenic studio in the world" on the spot. Here have been painted several of those canvases which subsequently flapped so merrily in the backstage...
Sixth Day. The stage was set for two races. Imperturbable Paavo Nurmi (Finland) trotted forth, wiriest of the wiry, hard, slender and supple as a rapier. Carrying a stop watch in his hand to gauge his pace, he first loped 1,500, then 5,000 metres at a speed that broke all his followers' hearts and lungs, save Ritola's, who finished at Nurmi's shoulder in the second race. (Ritola had run 26,000 metres in five days. Nurmi had won twice within two hours...