Word: words
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...memory of a onetime student?Calvin Coolidge Jr. ¶ In the south gardens of the White House, crocuses bloomed, hyacinths budded. ¶ James Coupal, M.D. and Major U. S. A., the President's personal physician, told the President he must cut out "handshaking" His patient obeyed. Swiftly the word went forth that the President loves handshaking, that he would like to shake all the millions of hands in the U. S. But the fact remained that he quit?at least temporarily. It was estimated that by avoiding this uneconomical?and, according to Dr. Coupal, health-endangering ?performance during...
...Congressman agreed that Judge English was not an ideal?was, in fact, a bad Judge. He had no defenders. But, though the final vote would not indicate it, there were on the floor of the House many stubborn opponents of impeachment. Why? Because there were two interpretations of the word "impeachment...
UNDERGRADUATE authors seem to have a flair for the shallow and the flippant. Ever since, F. Scott Fitzgerald we have had a series of sophomoric novel writers who spill a lot of ink, twist. Their words into a cross-word puzzle pattern, and sell their products under the name of literature to the thousands who affect. Sophistication because they lack understanding...
Apparently to justify the shallowness of the book there is a moral to all this word-syncopation. The cover-chare, as it is not tremendously difficult to guess, is the bitter payment exacted from the gigoles in return for which they have received nothing worth while. In spite of this very worthy but hardly original religious by play, the book leaves the felling that you have been listening to two solid hours of very bad jazz...
...Into what follows, the author has injected many incidents personally witnessed by him, and with a sure eye for comic effect in word and situation, has drawn a sympathetic picture of the laughter and the laughable for which the war sets the stage...