Word: welled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...world-speech. George Washington, "best business man of his day," was its occasional theme. Its substantive text was U. S. foreign relations. In them President Coolidge found much satisfaction. President Washington, he imagined, would also have been well pleased. Said President Coolidge...
...buzzer buzzes. Up jumps the Job-Seeker. No. 1 Secretary goes to investigate. If all is well, he opens another white door for the Job-Seeker to pass, through a short passage, into a large green oval room with three bay windows at one end, a marble fireplace (with fire) at the other. At a flat-topped mahogany desk sits the President...
Cotton, Copra, Broom Corn, Vegetable Oils, Hides. The American Farm Bureau Federation asked for duties on all these things as well as on bananas and horse-radish (above...
...cheesecloth. If the President wishes to follow this recommendation, Mr. Forster will prepare the customary order and proclamation. And here are the engraved commissions for the six new U. S. judges just confirmed by the Senate. Would the President blow up a bridge in California tomorrow evening? Very well, Mr. Forster will arrange for the connection. What flowers does the President like on his desk? Mr. Forster will get them. Will the President receive a delegation of Choctaw Indians and be photographed with them? No? Mr. Forster will send off the necessary regrets...
Even the college editors, well-informed as they are supposed to be, suffer from the same handicap of having only faulty images on which to base what they will say. The fault is, of course, not peculiar to college students; what is called public opinion is built on a foundation as shaky. Neither should the blame lie wholly on the undergraduates; in most universities there are conditions which keep from the student intimate knowledge of events. But where opinion can be based only on impressions it will never have more than a transitory value...