Word: hours
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week President Hoover stuck close to his White House desk, saw few callers, braced himself for a prolonged contest with Congress. ¶ On Thanksgiving Day the President corrected proof on his message to Congress on the State of the Union (see below), punctuating the hours with an 18-Ib. wild turkey, shot in the Blue Ridge Mountains near his summer camp and presented to him by Postmaster William M. Mooney of Washington. With the White House in mourning for Secretary of War Good, only three extra plates were set, for Allan Hoover, Mr. & Mrs. Edgar Rickard. Other doings...
...cupful of bottled lime juice. Dilute with one pint of iced plain or charged water." Mint Julep-"Five lemons, one bunch fresh mint, one and one-half cups of sugar, one-half cup water, three bottles of ginger ale. Combine ingredients except ginger ale and let stand one half hour: add ginger ale and pour over ice; serve in small glasses...
...they hear a symphony go to the theatre or dine at a roadhouse a hundred miles from Cambridge. For decades they walked across the fields to visit with one of the five or six thousand families settled about Massachusetts Bay, then they rode post coaches to Boston in an hour later they came home from debates across the Charles their feet buried in straw on the floor of a horse car later still in electric street cars they made the trip from Marleave's Cafe in twenty five minutes and now they drop into the subway and are rushed under...
There has been an increasing amount of discussion in recent years of the pros and cons of certain features of the present system of General Examination in History Government and Economics. Men concentrating in this division take three three hour examinations at the end of the Senior year; one covering the department of History, Government or Economics as the case may be one on a special field with in the department and a so called "general" examination on the two related departments in which the student is not concentrating...
...impatiently, badly, the painter wanted a photograph to help him. Banker Morgan agreed to allow a photographer just two minutes for the job. The next day he arrived punctually to find Photographer Edward J. Steichen, 27, waiting for him. Mr. Steichen had been there for a half-hour studying lights and shades, posing the janitor of the building in the chair where Banker Morgan would sit. Briskly he shunted the sitter to his seat. Banker Morgan sat down, glared into the lens. Snap. One picture was taken. Said Steichen...