Word: franked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President & Mrs. Coolidge dined at the house of the Secretary of State & Mrs. Frank Billings Kellogg, of St. Paul. Other Minnesotans present, with their ladies, were Sumner Thomas McKnight (banker, realtor, expert on criminal pardons & paroles), John Sargent Pillsbury (flour-"Eventually. Why Not Now?"), President Donald John Cowling of Carleton College at Northfield. Also present was Dr. William Holland Wilmer, ophthalmologist...
...fear is the impression your brutally frank description might make on your casual reader, who cannot realize the enormous significance of a personal experience like Beers' being turned to account for the benefit of mankind...
...Joseph ("Black Jack") Pershing. When local rivalries, dishonesties and backbitings were found to present unsurmountable obstacles, it was discovered that "Black Jack's" teeth needed expert U. S. attention (TIME, Jan. n, 1926) and he sailed for home. Subsequently appearances have been patched up by Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg, who arranged for Chile and Peru to resume diplomatic relations but the 49-year-old Tacna-Arica Question is absolutely no nearer settlement than before...
...heard Bill Nye tell stories and Frank Harris converse. Eugene Debs, Eugene Field, the late La Follette, James Whitcomb Riley, O. Henry, Helen Keller and numerous newsboys, janitors, cabbies, children were or are among his acquaintances...
Last spring, he wrote for the New York World an obituary for famed Nora Bayes, which ended: "I don't know where she is now, but I do know that whoever is with her is having a swell time." That applies well to Frank Sullivan, whether you are with him or reading his works...