Word: dinners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge continued well last week and accompanied the President to a dinner given by the Hoovers. But the condition of her 78-year-old mother, Mrs. Lemira Goodhue, who had been lying ill in Northampton, Mass., for three months, became more serious. Accompanied by White House Physician Joel T. Boone and by Mrs. Reuben B. Hills of Northampton, her friend since girlhood, Mrs. Coolidge went home. Mrs. Goodhue rallied, then sank again. John Coolidge went down from Amherst to join his mother, accompanied by Miss Florence Trumbull. They waited...
...enemy have made a law that it hurts me to go on these drives. . . . I do not take these drives for recreation but because I want to establish dominion over mortal minds antagonistic to belief." In the evenings, after dinner, Mrs. Eddy would sit in the window of her house, staring out at the people who went by. There was tremendous enchantment for her in the tragic and anonymous parade that passes forever in front of all the windows in the world...
...Federal buildings throughout the land. People were already agitating about the next "Summer White House" and suggesting places as exotic as Hollywood, Calif., despite the President's known feeling that he should stay near Washington this summer. There was also the Jardines' dinner, which President Coolidge had to attend alone, Mrs. Coolidge not feeling well enough, after her cold, to go out of doors until three days later. There was a holiday trip to Alexandria, Va., to celebrate Washington's Birthday, and there was a new harbor, at Hollywood, Fla., to be blasted open by the touch...
...Russell: "I feel insulted that President Frank did not communicate courteously with me but caused the students to cancel the meeting. Dean Goodnight refused to allow the students to invite me to dinner. I was treated as an intellectual and social outcast...
These, spoken in Washington, last week, were the words of famed General John Joseph Pershing as he prepared to act as host at a dinner for the members of the national and executive committees of Washington Cathedral.* At the dinner, it was announced that $800,000 had been given for work on the choir and the crossing of the new edifice. General Pershing, as chairman of the national committee, assumed formal leadership of the campaign to raise $6,800,000 immediately and $30,000,000 ultimately with which to make the cathedral a "U. S. Westminster Abbey." He spoke further...