Word: whitely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Without mentioning names but leaving no doubt whatever about whom he was talking. President Hoover picked up a paper and read to an assemblage of White House correspondents. As he read they looked more and more dumbfounded as if they did not believe a President of the United States could be so outspoken. Mr. Hoover read on. with a broad smile at their astonishment. When he had finished reading the correspondents asked whether this statement was for their information or whether they might give him as authority for the sense of it. His answer was that verbatim copies would...
...Grocers calculated that the President was inefficient in buying White House food at retail instead of wholesale. Since March 4, they computed, the President and Mrs. Hoover have not passed a day without having guests at one or more meals. Some 1,400 guests ate at the White House in a little over six months, including 200 house guests and 250 week-end guests at the Virginia camp. Wholesale savings on butter, eggs, bread, tradesmen said, could have been considerable. But the U. S. Government has no cause to object. Food eaten by all except official guests is paid...
With the political situation eased by the deflation of Dr. Pfrimer, well-groomed, white-chinned Johann Schober, Vienna's paunchy Police President, carefully inspected his green-coated and his khaki-coated constabulary, took stock of the machine guns in his station houses. Then he issued a cryptic but reassuring message in the Wiener Sonnundmontagszeitung (Vienna Sundayandmondaynewspaper...
William Hale Thompson, from one of the "oldest and best-known families," shouted for the "full dinner pail," refused Joffre an official welcome. In 1919 a Negro boy was stoned at a white bathing beach; next day 30 blacks were maimed in the city's worst race riot. Alfonse Capone came from New York with a scar on his face. Dean O'Banion, onetime acolyte, draft-dodger, said "Hello" to two strangers, fell slug-riddled in his flower shop. Mayor Thompson took some friends down the brown Mississippi, washed water over levees, was shot at. "Just yesterday" Capone was jailed...
Death Problem. In London one Leslie Faber talked, acted in sound-film White Cargo, died shortly after its completion. Pretending uncertainty whether to exhibit-living and speaking-a man who was dead, the producers asked advice of celebrities. "Show it," said Sir Gerald Du Maurier. "Think," said someone else "what it would be if we could now have a talking motion picture of Henry Irving in The Bells...