Word: functional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dozen others. Mrs. Rockefeller fancies Japanese art, about which the President knows little. For entertainment there were cinema scenes of Alaska. . . . Two nights later, the President, still alone, received some 2,000 Army, Navy and Marine officers and their wives, at the White House. It was the last state function of the year. Marching into the drawing room, President Coolidge gave his arm to Mrs. Dawes, while Mrs. Kellogg stepped up to accompany the Vice President, and on down the line. . . . Governor & Mrs. John H. Trumbull and Miss Florence Trumbull, of Connecticut, spent a night at the White House...
...Beckford, D.M.D. '06, Professor of Prosthetic Dentistry, will lecture on the "Restoration of Function in the Mouth and Teeth as a Health Measure" at the Harvard Medical School next Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock...
...England (see p. 15), Mrs. Coolidge last week fell ill. A heavy cold sent her to bed with pain in her side and a trained nurse standing by. After four days, White House Physician James Francis Coupal reported her convalescent. The attack caused her to miss a state function for the first time in her two terms as White House hostess. President Coolidge alone conducted a formal dinner to Speaker Longworth of the House...
Momentously the Queen-Empress was indisposed. She was stricken last week, as was Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, with a stay-a-bed cold. Therefore two records were set: 1) Mrs. Coolidge, for the first time in her husband's administration, absented herself from a White House social function; and 2) Queen-Empress Mary, for the first time in her consort's reign, did not accompany His Majesty when he rode forth to open Parliament...
Most of the pictures were the images of flowers seen through two lenses; the first a powerful magnifying glass, the second the iris of a perspicacious inward eye, whose function was to give clarity a significance beyond the decorative. In the way a purple petunia spread its violent petals, there was a hint, a symbol for truths not necessarily too deep for words to reach but outside the meanings from which words have been derived. It is enough to say that Miss O'Keeffe's paintings are as full of passion as the verses of Solomon's Song...