Word: gridironing
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...gridiron calls for red meat. Raw politics are red meat for journalists. Were Washington full of statesmen, the Capital newsgatherers' Gridiron Club would lead a meagre existence. Last week's Gridiron dinner, though it was the second in three months, was a bountiful feast...
...usual, the President and his aids were on hand, and legislators aplenty. John D. Rockefeller Jr., Tsar Kenesaw Mountain Landis of professional baseball, President E. H. H. Simmons of the New York Stock Exchange, General Pershing and notable sundries provided the lay relief which is necessary to save a Gridiron dinner from becoming mere facetious shop talk among mutually bored familiars...
...When the Gridiron sputtered, there came first a Latin-American revolution. A careful count revealed no casualties, the sole result being the inauguration of two men named Brown as the new Gridiron president. Ultimately it became clear that only one Brown, by name Ashmun Norris of the Providence Journal, was president. The other, Harry Jay Brown of the Salt Lake Tribune, was vice president...
...President's henchman, Frank Waterman Stearns, was re-named "the Colonel House of Boston." Prohibition Chief Lincoln C. Andrews saw himself tending bar to a furtive, thirsty Uncle Sam. Very few Gridiron perennials were dragged out but Coolidge Silence got its time-honored mention, as did the Coolidge electrical horse. The latter, however, was rechristened "Old Dynamo, by Tom Edison out of Electric Socket...
Political atmosphere in Washington can often be gauged, inversely, by the success of Gridiron skits. At last week's horseplay, the least laughter resulted when the scribes tried to joke about Secretary Kellogg's application of the Monroe Doctrine to oil wells...