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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Into conclave more secret than mysterious went Calvin Coolidge, his good friend Frank Waterman Stearns, and Nominee Hoover. When Mr. Hoover came out, he said: "I don't know that he [Mr. Coolidge] will make any political speeches, but he will make some public speeches." When Mr. Stearns came out, he said: "No human being, including myself, can tell three minutes ahead of time what he [Mr. Coolidge] is going to do." It was denied at the White House that Calvin Coolidge was planning to make a speech in Massachusetts. Nor had he decided whether to go to Northampton...
...seems that when Feldmarschall von Hindenburg was chosen President, an old friend of army days said to him: "What will you do when you get nervous, as you must often be, among all those politicians and with all your new responsibilities...
Fast Life. Better had this piece been called Slow Death. It is another from fecund Playsmith Samuel Shipman. The male party to a companionate marriage is accused of murdering a friend. It turned out that the real murderer was the son of the Governor, but this development was not permitted to have any effect until the unjustly accused was seated in the electric chair, a hood over his head...
Chee-Chee. On the road, they are beset by Tartars, monks and brigands who beat the hero and take Chee-Chee off-stage for purposes which can be guessed. Finally the Grand Eunuch catches up with his son and prepares to have him fitted for high office; but a friend of Chee-Chee, Li-Li-Wee, persuades her husband to kidnap and impersonate the surgeon. Li-Li-Wee's husband then plays dominoes with the son of the Grand Eunuch instead of operating on him; thus providing the most extraordinary happy-ending which has yet been permitted...
...agony and sorrow. Instead, she sent him to live with some country people and went on being a governess. Lovers came to her again and she accepted them: Albert, who had loved her long ago; Richard, who thought that she was "too good for him," slept with her friend and committed suicide. Her son grew up to be a sneak-thief; to have him with her she rented furnished rooms and started to give lessons. For one of the girls who attended her classes, Theresa came to possess a deep and sacrificial love; it appeared that she was to marry...