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...Pilots. ¶ The President let it be known that he would not approve of extending the coastwise shippings laws to the Philippines on the ground that it would bring restrictions on shipping similar to those inflicted by Great Britain on American colonies before the Revolution. ¶The socal whirl became more dervish-like. The President and Mrs. Coolidge attended a dinner given by Secretary of War and Mrs. Weeks, one of a series of ten given by various members of the Cabinet. The guests included the Presidents of Yale and Brown Universities, Under Secretary of State Philipps...
Senator McCormick, who is again enjoying the center of his own whirl- wind...
Mother Advocate has indeed, changed very slightly. She was always a little absent minded and impractical and she still clings to her absurd habit of writing verse. The Gentleman, on the other hand, has been content to forget the romantic tendencies of his youth and to plunge into the whirl of business, with the result that he has now a mansion, a gold watch fob, and a bank account of his own. But he has also something more valuable a reputation that none can respect and honor more than Mother Advocate. --Harvard Advocate...
...very clever about "the female of the species" and he has been quoted with exasperating reiteration. Yet there are times when the phrase his cynical genius coined is the only remark adequate to the situation. It must have been on many men's lips during the past week's whirl at the D. A. R. Convention in Washington...
Herndon and Ingraham began as though they were going to whirl through their match in short order, for they dropped but two games in the first set. In the second, however, Briggs and Bondi put up a stiff fight and forced their more experienced opponents to show their best style of play. A deuce set was quite unexpected, since Briggs and Bondi had not displayed any very remarkable skill earlier in the tournament. Although Herndon and Ingraham are now in the semi-finals, this is only the second match they have played, since they won their others by default...