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...State. out for an airing with President Roosevelt. Sergeant Stimson of Squadron A. N. Y. National Guard, spurred his horse over the swollen stream, nearly foundered in the middle, clambered up the slippery bank opposite, gave a mud-bespattered salute, reported for duty. President Roosevelt asked him to dine at the White House and later appointed him U. S. District Attorney in Manhattan...
...Lord Mayor of London for 1929 is bustling, up-to-the-minute Colonel Sir John Edward Kynaston Studd, but the hoar and mighty Mansion House is just as Dickens knew it, and much as it has been for over 180 years. Trooping in, last week, to dine off the City's plate of gold, went not only H. R. H. but Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and the Empire's choicest assortment of Industrial Tycoons marshaled by their dean, Baron Ebbisham, President of the Federation of British Industries. The guests were met?or thought they were?merely to toss...
...unnatural inflection that, 1,500 years later, Cesare Cardinal Borgia inclined to?incest with his sisters. His fancies led him to roast people alive, feed others to wild beasts. He loved to mutilate children, women, men. At executions he made victims' parents attend and after the slaughter dine with him, to enjoy their obsequious gagging...
President and Mrs. Coolidge dined with Secretary Mellon while Under-Secretary Ogden Livingston Mills entertained Vice President and Mrs. Dawes. Two evenings later the Justices of the Supreme Court of the U. S. and their wives, and twoscore other guests, drove to the White House to dine. Among the twoscore were Railroader Daniel Willard. Drugman Louis Kroh Liggett, Oilman Clay Arthur Pierce (who tendered his late father's fishing lodge at Brule, Wis., for Summer White House last year), and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ford. It was by no means the first time the Fords had visited the White...
Over the regular trans-Atlantic telephone Prince George talked from Manhattan with Queen Mary. Later he peered from the top of the Woolworth building, sat down to dine at 8:30 in the Vanderbilt mansion, slipped out at 10:15 to catch his ship...