Word: whitely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Indian Summer weather (temp. 83°) sent President Hoover and 19 weekend guests to his Shenandoah National Park camp, hastily reopened. Chilly rain drove them back to the White House for Sunday night supper and music...
...Through a White House side-door slipped Republican Senators Watson and McNary. Gravely they talked to the President. After they had slipped out again, President Hoover lifted his voice, said things to the Senate about the tariff...
President Herbert Hoover, The White House, Washington...
...that it becomes noticeable. It is all very well to develop a background that will help the whole atmosphere of the tale, but it is a mistake to make the background too prominent. It has the same effect of the announcement interrupting a radio program to advertise whosis' blue-white diamonds. S. S. Vine Dine makes his hero, Philo Vance, in the Greene and Canary Murder Cases say and do a lot of idiotic things in an attempt to give his story an intellectual and cultural background...
There he is happy and contented, his keeper reports, sharing a pool in the center of a large cage with fellow alligators who have lived there for many years. Should he tire of his report relatives, two large white goose can help to while away the weary hours...