Word: adieu
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then to Roseland from Boston and the front rank of U. S. tycoons came Archibald Robertson Graustein, head of the International Paper Co. (now subsidiary of International Paper & Power Co.). Great was Mr. Graustein's place and many were his cares, but he bade dull care adieu, learned Roseland's ropes. He found that payment of 85? entitled him to three dances (three minutes apiece). After these initial dances, men who had brought their own girls danced with them at 5? per dance. But girl-less men (like Mr. Graustein) danced with hostesses, paid at the rate...
...still as the Secretary of Commerce that Mr. Hoover received newsgatherers one final time. In a three-minute speech he thanked them for their patience and industry in making public the doings of the Department. "We thought we had a gospel to preach here," he said. He bade adieu to his heads of bureaus in a choked voice...
...Adieu, Old World. I would hail a New World...
...danced, danced, danced .... in the street to the music of hurdygurdles, before an old convent I attended, in the glamorous spotlight of the "Follies" under the instruction of Ziegfield, on expensive sets in lavish movies. The cinema has its charm, but after two more pictures I am hidding it adieu. My husband and I are going to Tunis to live, close to the romantic Sahara...
...Coolidge sat down to dinner with John Coolidge. In the middle of the table was a big cake. ¶The day before the President's departure for Washington, Rapid City editors addressed to him their farewells. The Democratic Gate City Guide, under the heading, "A Heart-Warm Fond Adieu," said: "In your own quiet way you have shown us still another winning of the West." Said Mr. Patrick Sullivan, Wyoming Republican National Committeeman: ". . . The Republican Party on this side of the Mis- sissippi has been stimulated by the visit...