Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their evening gear and party moods, the Secretaries did not much resemble the men they are during their working hours. Lately (a month ago) the Secretaries left their desks and followed their leader out to the White House lawn. Beside one of the gravelled paths, six chairs were arranged-five straightbacks and one armchair-for picture-taking. President Coolidge, in one of his new grey double-breasted suits, sat in the armchair, motioning short, white-haired Secretary Frank Billings Kellogg to his right side. In the end chair on that side, well-built, well-dressed, young-looking Secretary...
...Since I left office, I have worked hard as a journalist to earn my livelihood ? I am pleased to say with some success. My articles have appeared in almost every great country in the world and my emoluments from this source during these four years have been much greater than the aggregate of my salaries during seventeen years of office. This statement would have been an unwarrantable boast on my part had it not been rendered necessary by the cowardly slander privately circulated as to my use of party funds...
...portraits to Howard Chandler Christy, deft and prolific creator of girl head covers for magazines. Last week Artist & Mrs. Christy reached Manhattan on the Italian Liner Conte Rosso (Red Count). Soon impertinent newsgatherers were asking: "Did you paint Mussolini?" Broad and smug came an answering smile from the left-handed little man who gets $1,700 for a magazine cover. Quietly he replied that among his luggage was a portrait for which Il Duce had posed three times. . . . Mrs. Christy, vivacious, cut in. Cried she: "Mussolini is the most marvelous man I ever knew. He has charm, personality, strength...
...Nicholas of Rumania had forcibly arrested a truculent taxi driver who refused to pull over out of the way of His Royal Highness' roadster. Reputedly "Prince" Nicholas seized the protesting man by the collar, lifted him into his own automobile and sped to the police station, where he left his prisoner." Persons who recall the bantamweight proportions and receding chin of Prince Nicholas, 24, think that this story...
...arose seven years ago when without good reason Polish forces marched into Lithuania and seized the capital, Vilna, and occupied a good portion of that country. Since then the inhabitants have been energetically kept in hand and revolutions have been continually fomented against the government which controls what is left of Lithuania...