Word: colonel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pleasure of swearing his own son in as President and living to see that son inaugurated for a second time was reserved for Colonel John Calvin Coolidge of Plymouth...
There is little to say of Colonel Coolidge, save that he was a man of affairs in a tiny Vermont village. He was born on March 31, 1845, schooled in the neighborhood at the same schools his son later attended. He began his career as a wheelwright, then he rented the general store. At 27 he was elected to the state legislature, served six terms, and added to them one term in the state Senate. His title of Colonel came to him when Governor Stickney appointed him to the gubernatorial staff. He was local tax-collector for 38 years, postmaster...
Belle Bennett as Mrs. Fleming has been out of an evening in 1914 when her husband, Colonel Fleming, returns unexpectedly from his regiment. He discovers that she has been gambling bell, money and time with Count Deoder. Being a soldier he refuses to arbitrate and declares he never wants to see her again. At just that moment someone knocks at the front door. It is a despatch, ordering immediate mobilization...
...Carlo and Lois a very entrancing young girl. "Count Feodor returns to see the daughter, a suit naturally not attractive to the mother. Luckily a young man from Grand Rapids Furniture, as he calls it, turns up to outrival the "homme du monde" and the story ends happily when Colonel Fleming, friend of the Grand Rapids youth, saves Belle from suicide and begs forgiveness for his prewar wrath...
Lowell Sherman plays the villainous Count, while James Kirkwood wears the Colonel's epaulets. Ben Lyon, however, is the luckiest of them all, since he carries off the heroine...