Word: fathered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...feel it is time for me to burst into your letters columns. I see on page 7 of your issue of Nov. 12 an item which quotes my father as saying: "He feels like I did in 1908, not by any means like I felt in 1912." About 12 years ago my Uncle, Mr. Horace Taft, was distinctly heard by a number of members of the family at the Murray Bay lunch table to say of Tom Shevlin, "H« had himself paged in hotels by a boy waving an envelope like it was a telegram." He denied...
...notice also your repetition of the reference to my father's statement about prohibition 10 years ago. I haven't seen in TIME or elsewhere any reference to what he said about it 5 years ago. I enclose a copy for your information...
...thanks to son Charles P. Taft 2d. for the copy of his father's New Haven speech...
...charged that he had evaded Neptune's court when he crossed the Equator two years ago; also, that he had sunburned the tonsils of his illustrious father's se'" -: tary with a reading glass while the secretary (George Akerson) slept on deck. First he had to lie in state, lily in hand, while the band played a dirge and newsmen who had boasted about having dress clothes with them paraded in cutaways and silk toppers. Then, neck and hands in stocks, he was led before the judges (his parents) and made to kiss the Royal Baby...
Miss Longfellow is immortalized in four lines of her father's verse, and with her name there remains much that shall stay as long as Harvard is Harvard...