Word: classicized
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...Committee. Long a Republican National Committeeman, from his sick bed in Philadelphia he helped dictate the Harding nomination in 1920 over the long-distance telephone to Chicago. He wrote a scholarly history of Philadelphia's city government. The Penrose sandwich (graham bread, tongue, lettuce, tomato) is still a classic item in the Senate restaurant...
...local college where a freshwater esthete named Winfield Gaines (but called "Phoebe") was her friend until he was expelled. She studied singing with a local teacher who had a book called Lyra Operatica, full of stilted engravings of old singers in the pinched and flowing costumes of classic roles. She herself had a big rich voice. It was for church-singing, perhaps someday teaching. Certainly not for the sinful ways of opera. But when her father and mother died, Helma went to New York...
With Harvard taking fifth place in the eighth annual I. C. A. A. A. A. meet, New York University won its first championship in the indoor classic mainly because of the brilliant performance of Phil Edwards, its star runner, at the 102nd Regiment Armory in New York, Saturday night...
...from the White House to the Senate with Mr. Garrett's went two other names that caused much less elation. One was Irvine Luther Lenroot, onetime (1918-27) Wisconsin Senator, to sit also on the Customs Appeals bench; the other, Henry H. Classic, Maryland Democrat and once a very much abused U. S. Tariff Commissioner, to the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia...
...Classic's wife and brothers owned Louisiana cane sugar mills. The sugar duty came before the Tariff Commission. Commissioner Glassie voted against reduction of the sugar rate, tied the Commission, blocked action, helped Calvin Coolidge out of a 1924 campaign hole. In the Senate he was denounced...