Word: websterisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senator George Higgins Moses of New Hampshire marched into the White House, invited President Hoover to dedicate next year a memorial at Franklin, N. H. to mark Daniel Webster's sesquicentennial. The President hemmed & hawed, would promise nothing. Then Senator Moses asked for a contribution to the memorial fund. Promptly President Hoover signed a check for $100. Before going to the Navy Department to get another $100 subscription from Secretary Adams, the Senator issued this bit of mosaic. ''It's not in the cards to take the Republican nomination away from President Hoover...
...public utilities. It operates its own electric power and light plants, its own street railway system. For 20 years James Delmage Ross, onetime Yukon gold rusher, has served as Superintendent of City Light. A stout advocate of public ownership, he has fought many a gaudy fight with Stone & Webster's Puget Sound Power & Light Co. He has built up a political machine of his own; in fact no man or woman has within recent years been elected Mayor of Seattle without first promising the reappointment of Superintendent Ross. Frank Edwards, running as the "businessman's candidate...
Long years ago on a dreary seventh of March, Daniel Webster stood up before the Senate of the United States and delivered what chauvinistic New Englanders are still pleased to remember as a most unfortunate speech. Many and great were the execrations heaped upon his head. One man particularly was outraged. He wrote a poem called Ichabod which today third graders recite in a fumbling monotone on Memorial Day. He also broke forth in trenchant prose with the words, "The God that made New Hampshire taunted that lofty state with little men." Old Boston squatted on its haunches and shook...
...time came for Webster to make another speech, and the world listened. He arose jauntily enough and began, "Just as a dentist hangs out a great tooth as a sign of his trade, or a druggist displays a mixing bowl as a sign of his, so up in Franconia Notch God has hung out a sign to show that in New Hampshire he makes men." In the cool of many mornings after the sophistry of this remark becomes all too plain, but the kernel of truth that inspired it still remains. The Vagabond has just been up in the "lofty...
...Mallinckrodt MB9 Chemistry 11 Mallinckrodt MB23 Comp. Literature 42b Semitic Mus. 1 Economics 1c Geol. Lect. Rm. Economics 6b Geol. Lect. Rm. Education B Geol. Lect. Rm. Fine Arts 15e Fogg Small Rm. French 6 Professor Morize, Sec. 1 Harvard 5 Professor Allard, Sec. 2 Harvard 6 Dr. Webster, Sec. 3 New Lect. Hall Mr. Penny, Sec. 4 Sever 36 Mr. Lincoln, Sec. 5 Harvard 6 Government 27b Harvard 5 Government 29b Memorial Hall Greek 2 Sever 29 History 15 Sever 11 History 17b Fogg Large Rm. History 28 Harvard 2 History 68 Fogg Large Rm. History Science 1 Sever...