Word: cols
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Civil War veteran, father of Admiral George Calvin Day, U. S. N., who commands the present Atlantic cruiser squadron. Mr. Day left Plymouth, Vt., 57 years ago, two years before Calvin Coolidge was born. He recalled President Coolidge's grandfather more clearly than the late Col. John Coolidge. Asked how President Coolidge had impressed him. Mr. Day said: "Very fairly. He runs pretty true to the Yankee type...
...North Sydney, Nova Scotia, far away from his tour-companions, Edward of Wales and George, his brother, in Alberta, gathered a distinguished group to bid the Prime Minister and Mrs. Baldwin farewell. It included Dominion Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King; National Defense Minister Col. J. L. Ralston; Postmaster General Hon. Peter J. Veniot. Sirens shrieked and the big liner moved away on its voyage across the Atlantic. Handkerchiefs waved, silk hats were lifted, last messages shouted. And gradually the great ship became like a rowboat on the horizon and eventually was seen no more...
...Story of Gay Leonard-for it is far more her story than Dolly Quinn's - makes one of the better contemporary novels.- She is one of those astonishingly fragile moths, dusted with gold, who first distract football behemoths at col lege proms; then able young busi ness men at country club week ends; then men-about-town, reputable and otherwise. These moths cease to discriminate as their pow er and need of distraction increase. Sometimes they alight safely, their powdery gold dusts away and they become more or less plumply con tented. Other times, especially if their wits...
...Col. Hanford MacNider, Assistant Secretary of War, landed in Washington after 11,905 miles by airplane. He made 48 hops, inspected army posts in North and West. Whimsically he christened his plane The Spirit of Unrest...
Died. Rutherford Platt Hayes, 69, son of the late U. S. President Rutherford B. Hayes, and brother of the President's only surviving son, Col. Webb C. Hayes, who still occupies the old family mansion in Fremont, Ohio; at Tampa, Fla.; after a lingering illness...