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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...received orders to proceed to Block Island. There we carried the Commandant of the Second Naval District, Captain Bryan (?), out to the Texas which was surprisingly close to the shore. For the next few days, armed with our "formidable" Three-Pounder, we patrolled the waters-or, as an Army friend put it, we "kept ourselves safe for democracy...
Robinson: "Oh, yes. That shows the prescriptive spirit which dwells in the bosom of my friend from Alabama...
...Lowella seems to bear no grudge; her attitude is that of a best friend and severest critic. Obviously she is a close friend of Montgomery Higginson, the leading figure of that distinguished coterie of literati which counts among its number such important names a Essenz von Bierschaum, Jan Rotterdam, and Major Polonius Pringle. In such company as this, Lowella should be safe even at the Lamb's Club...
...frying pan and rolling pin from tramps who have besieged his private car. This year he turned seventy-five, was pensioned by the Pullman company, pronounced too old to serve the Great Paderewski. He himself broke the news when Paderewski arrived from Europe, begged the privilege of recommending his friend James Davis...
...themselves in their little Cape Cod community that her heaviest responsibility is to live up to her name. Since she is the heroine, it is only right that she be willing to take the artificial position lightly. She goes to work quite calmly and the town talks. Her best friend and adviser is a fine man, but not in her social plane. She is too generous to care for that. One knows at the beginning that she will marry him at the end. She does. There is her mysterious half-brother from the West who, not having been heard...