Word: knots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nicholas Longworth, speaker of the House of Representatives, last week had another distaff knot embroidered into the cloth of his family's fame. He is husband of Alice Roosevelt Longworth, father of Paulina Longworth, brother of Countess Jacques de Chambrun (wife of a French general). Last week, in Paris, the French Academy awarded the Bordin prize to the Countess for her studies of Shakespeare...
When Umpire Stafford broke through a knot of quarrelling players to forfeit the Colgate contest to Harvard, 9 to 0, last Saturday, he stopped a good baseball game. Until that inning F. B. Cutts '28 had held the visiting batters to two hits, and since the second had not allowed a runner to reach first...
...Among other things, he was onetime Judge Advocate General (legal head) of the U. S. Army and its ablest lawyer in many a year. He was the chief author of the selective draft law? an achievement as difficult as it was unpopular. In Cuba, he ably unraveled another thankless knot. As one of the makers of its organic law, as personal representative of President Harding, as U. S. Ambassador since 1923, no man has done more to take the chaos out of Cuba than Major General Crowder...
...farm organizers, midwestern Senators and Representatives. The President will tell them how anxious he is to solve the farm problem, will ask their suggestions. Meanwhile, a compromise farm bill will be constructed with his approval. Congress will pass it next winter and the President will have solved a tough knot. . . . Such is the predicted strategy. ¶ Paul Claudel, French Ambassador to the U. S., called on President Coolidge, presented his credentials...
...Sweringens add another knot to their projects...