Word: whitely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Slemp's visit to the White House bore fruit when President Hoover telegraphed the Richmond convention that its action "added proof of the purpose of the people of your great State to rise and remain above the level of single party control in local government," and that it would "prove an inspiration to other States throughout the South to do likewise...
...made him feel even more uncomfortable than the silk knee-breeches he used to have to wear when, as President of the Board of Trade (1924), he waited on King George. A heavy scarlet robe covered his gnomelike figure. An ermine collar, seeming to grow out of his greyish-white Vandyke beard, lay hot and moist about his neck. A black cocked hat sat strangely above his shaggy, quizzical eyebrows. The usually cool and comfortable philosopher of the Labor movement who was for seven years an M. P. in the House of Commons, a member of the faculty...
...desk of Fernand Bouisson, President of the Chamber of Deputies, is an arrangement of red and white flashing lights, newly installed last week. Fifteen minutes after a speaker obtains the floor, a white flash warns him courteously that his time is almost up. If he does not stop talking when the red flash comes, everyone knows he is out of order. In spite of this innovation, parliamentary business proceeded as slowly as ever in Paris last week...
Died. Strongheart, 13, German police dog, principal of many a cinema (Brawn of the North, White Fang, North Star, The Love Master); in Los Angeles...
...hope thai Upsala, his home and the seat of Sweden's archbishopric, might some day be chosen as capital of Lutheranism. There, where once stood a glittering heathen temple, now stands as fine a Lutheran Cathedral as there is in the world, just west of where students in white velvet caps bordered in black stroll through the halls of the Oxford, the Heidelberg, the Sorbonne of Scandinavia, Upsala University...