Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Late one afternoon, President Coolidge sniffed enjoyably at false spring in the misty February air. Leaving off his overcoat, he set forth for a walk-down West Executive avenue, around the ellipse, up the opposite side. Then he did something that Presidents very seldom do: he went calling on a Cabinet official...
...Hoovers boarded Manhattan Banker Jeremiah Milbank's yacht Saunterer and cruised away at slow speed for the Florida Keys, for Fort Myers and a birthday party with their great and good friend Thomas A. Edison. Mr. Hoover planned to go on around to the West Coast and try for an early-running tarpon...
...quite all the Hoover troubles had been smoothed out. Dispute again arose as to who shall hold the Presidential hat at the Inauguration. Newt Butler of West Branch, Iowa, was to have been official hat-holder, because as a boy he "licked the stuffing out of Bert Hoover." But now 92-year old J. W. Reeder of Tipton, six miles from West Branch, claimed the honor, chiefly on grounds of seniority. Mr. Hoover will decide the hat-holding problem personally...
...submarine 54, once a coffin for 40 seamen off Provincetown, Mass., now a rescue laboratory stripped of fighting gear, gurgled purposefully down into seven fathoms of blue Gulf Stream water off Key West last week, carrying a trapped crew of 15 volunteers. The U. S. S. Mallard (tender) stood by. After 15 minutes a black buoy bobbed up among the waves. Three anxious minutes crawled by. Then the head of Chief Torpedoman Edward Kalinowski plopped out on the surface. A minute later Lieut. Charles B. Momsen emerged. They were the first two U. S. submariners ever to escape directly from...
Handicapped by the loss through recent injury of two of its regular entrants, the Harvard wrestling team will be forced to display the sternest sort of fight if the Army is not to break the Crimson record of two consecutive victories when the grapplers meet at West Point this afternoon...