Word: handed
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...leading private citizen. When Mr. Coolidge was introduced to the convention with the pronouncement that he would not make a speech, the convention cheered with loud yells for a speech for some five or six minutes. Finally Mr. Coolidge stepped to the front of the platform, raised his hand and said, "You can save time for this convention," etc. He got no further, and the applause and cheering continued for three or four minutes more, while he sat down...
...President Herbert Hoover ever wants to dedicate the $800,000 tomb of Warren Gamaliel Harding at Marion, Ohio, he will have to go, cap in hand, to the Harding Memorial Association and humbly beg its permission. The association is through importuning him to participate in a ceremony for which he apparently has no stomach...
...social event is the climax of the camp season. Camp Clinton is decorated and lighted, a hop floor is constructed in the middle of the main street, and a "boodle" table is set out, loaded with tempting refreshments. Promptly at one o'clock in the morning the white gloved hand of the cadet officer of the day goes up, and the insistent roll of a drum shatters the beauty of "Army Blue". The next day the Corps moves back to barracks, camp is dismantled, the "cows" come home from furlough, and the stage is set for another long battle with...
...since the show down did not come until the Senior year the self education was soon lost sight of, men took courses and tutors lent a hand to prepare for the Authors. As a result the examinations are no longer a check up on outside reading; they are made to fit such detailed preparation as English...
...cage, there will be a checker and his assistant, and an to take care of the provisions. Three runners will be employed to keep the stands supplied, as the volume of business is so large that enough provisions to last for a whole afternoon cannot be kept on hand...