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...afternoon Mrs. Calvin Coolidge and Mrs. Herbert Hoover chatted, as only women can chat, on the porch of the White House. It was to girlhood that their conversation turned...
...European tongues.] .... We partake of a light breakfast, and frequently dine together at about 2 p. m. After dinner I play some athletic game such as tennis or ride horseback. An hour during the afternoon is devoted to official visits.... I deplore the fact that so many of my girlhood friends have moved to other countries upon their marriage, leaving me with few intimates...
...support. She worked on newspapers and the stage. She met and married Carl Bender, a Danish artist, who sympathized with her instinct for writing and encouraged the project of her present work. The New York to which she goes back in its pages is the New York of her girlhood, speculatively remembered. That she had lately to send Mr. Bender home to Denmark, an incurable invalid, did not lighten her labors. The Dewing girls, Mary and Elizabeth Ann, attend a Manhattan convent of English nuns...
...People bustled about, put valises in automobiles, despatched trunks. President and Mrs. Coolidge boarded a special train leaving the Adirondacks at 8 a. m., sat on the observation car drinking in the fresh air, scenery, plaudits. At Burlington, Vt., Mrs. Coolidge's girlhood home, the President graciously yielded the spotlight to his wife, who was surrounded by a merry group of girls from the University of Vermont, the First Lady's Alma Mater. "Hello, Sally," she said. "Why, Mary, is this your boy?" All then, including Mrs. Coolidge, joined in a hearty rendition of "Champlain...
Governor Terral of Arkansas and Mayor Charles F. Moyer in high hats met her at the Capitol and handed her the keys of the city while a fine crowd applauded. She held an informal reception for her girlhood friends in the Governor's reception room; then she went to luncheon with Mrs. Alice C. Henniger, local music teacher (who discovered her voice). At five o'clock she was guest of honor at a high green tea of the Henniger School of Music; next day she gave a concert at the Little Rock High School (which she used...