Word: jervise
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¶ In the wall of the north portion of the White House is a bell. On a recent afternoon. President Coolidge pressed this bell repeatedly, scampered quickly away. To the north portico rushed a detail of Secret Service men, to whom the bell's ringing was a summons to...
In Halethorpe, near Baltimore, there commenced last week the Fair of the Iron Horse, a pageant-exhibition designed in observance of railroading's first centenary, sponsored by the Baltimore & Ohio Rail-road Co. In sheds and on sidings, locomotives gathered like blackamoors to an autumn ball. Chooing and spitting...
¶ The President finished breakfast, glanced at his morning mail, then climbed in his punctual limousine, sped* to Plattsburg, N. Y. He arrived. Cannon boomed 21 times, buglers sounded the Presidential flourish, the regimental band struck up the Star Spangled Banner and Hail to the Chief. Within five minutes, the...
12) What did Mrs. Coolidge ask Mr. Jervis not to forget? (P. 5.)
¶ "Wall, n-a-ow, Cal's a candidate sure enough-he's fixing up his fences," jested the village quipster as frantic cameramen from behind the deadline laid by secret service men watched the shirt-sleeved President uprooting rotten posts, nailing industriously. Later Head Secret Serviceman Dick...