Word: whitely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...compose the completed official list of nominees. Balloting will be by way of post card election; all Juniors will receive their ballots in tomorrow morning's mail. FOR PRESIDENT Thomas Wilson Dunn Fellowes Morgan Pruyn Edward Henry McGrath John Newlin Trainer Jr. FOR VICE-PRESIDENT Richard Chanler Aldrich John White Hallowell Emil Joseph Des Roches Edward Bernard Murphy FOR SECRETARY-TREASURER Stephen Pierce Duggan James Hopkins Smith Hiram Watson Sibley Edward Kuhn Straus
Publicity has apparently done the boy no harm. Simply, with great poise, he came on the stage last week?a tiny picture child in his Lord Fauntleroy suit, white socks, ankle-ties. Carefully he sounded his strings, began Vieuxtemps' Fantasia Appassionata, followed with Mozart's A Major Concerto, Paganini's D Major and a concluding short group. Not only does Ruggiero play trills and double stops with a master's assurance, but his tone is finished, of great purity. Some critics pronounced him greater than Yehudi Menuhin. All considered him more important than the season's other violin prodigies?Giula...
Other Coolidge pets: Do-Funny, trained troupial, tweaker of ears; Old Bill, thrush; Peter Pan, first Coolidge dog; Paul Pry, half-brother of President Harding's famed Laddie Boy; Rob Roy, Wisconsin sheepherding collie who disliked the White House elevator, who stole dainties from the Red Room tea table and was ever to be seen at the President's side. One Thanksgiving Rebecca, raccoon, was sent to the White House to be eaten, but the First Lady could not bear to kill her, built a pen, found a mate (Reuben) who disliked Rebecca and eventually escaped. When President...
...then someone was foolhardy enough to oppose him in his own state. One such, Robert McKisson, a Mayor of Cleveland with Senatorial aspirations, found in 1898 that Hanna's threatening figure was not a mirage. When McKinley was shot and the unpredictable Theodore Roosevelt stumbled delightedly into the White House (1901), Hanna's fall was hourly expected. But it never came. There was still plenty of useful data in the unaccredited minister's portfolio...
...black spread-eagle against the white cloud...