Word: whited
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White House is the springboard to head lines-Washington Axiom. President Hoover last week set about uprooting the conditions which made this saying, known to every wide-awake capital press agent, lobbyist and promoter, unpleasantly true. For months the President has been annoyed at the old and accepted practice of self-important little men entering the White House, saying "How-do-you-do" to the President, coming out to the newsgatherers in the lobby to talk of their "mission." What is said is generally of small importance; it would get scant press attention anywhere else. But because the publicity-seeker...
...proper department" without seeing the President; 2) those who get in by mistake will be ushered out a back door to the South Grounds, will be kept away from lobby newsmen; 3) letters addressed to the President and given to the press in advance of their receipt at the White House, will never reach the President, will never get a presidential reply...
Fifty thousand youths had come to celebrate the 21st birthday of the Boy Scouts of the World. Their ages ranged from 12 to 18, their color from white to black...
...fish. Suddenly he heard a cheer outside. Poking his head through the tent-flap, Scout Taylor was quick to recognize sparrow-legged U. S. Ambassador to England Charles Gates Dawes. No lavatory in his tent, Scout Taylor rushed out, fishy paws and all. Ambassador Dawes held out a clean white hand. "Afraid I can't shake hands," said the Scout, "I've been scaling fish." The Ambassador grinned, gripped the boys wrist...
...Allous Messieurs, I am ready." said M. Poincarè, and an ether mask soon covered his grizzly white whiskers. As the great War-time President of France sank into somnolence, he did not feel Surgeons Marion and Gosset fiddling about below his bladder...