Word: letters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...discountenance finally the Coolidge-anyway movement, of which the latest slogan, attributed last week to Committeeman Hilles and friends in New York, was: "Coolidge or chaos." Others said the Absolute Negative, or perhaps a Loyal Acquiescence, would go to the convention in Chairman Butler's pocket, in a letter from Mr. Coolidge to be read at the critical moment, if any. Representing the President behind the scenes at Kansas City will be his trusty secretary, Everett Sanders...
Perhaps it was to prove that he really felt badly about it that Governor Richards last week gave the Ben Bess case a new twist. He wrote a letter to the solicitor of the Florence district and suggested that he present to the Grand Jury the white trash woman, Maude Collins, now 60 years old and expecting Death soon...
...sensitivity that has banished the letter from sweaters, that has almost succeeded in banishing the sweaters, that has made the striped tie victim of occasional snobbery, if this sentiment has played midwife to the birth of a new ostracism, then Harvard has once again gone too far. When typewriters, pajamas, and cameras go red, blue and flesh, the Senior has opportunity to render his first service to waiting mankind, by calming a world gone color mad with the dignity of baccalaureate black. More that that, his immediate attention to duty might relieve Harvard of the stigma, at present deserved...
...joke in England is a joy forever. Last week one Kenneth G. Frazer, F. R. C. S.,* of Edinburgh, a medical missionary to the Southern Sudan, wrote a letter to the London Times, telling people what to do with razor blades. Said he: "Send them to me. . . . I never could get enough of them. . . . For years I have been collecting used blades to present to my woolly friends in Southern Sudan who are experts at shaving each other's heads with them. . . . I will take them back with me in the autumn...
...said to write all about her unrefined past, and how she traveled with a Carnaval Company until a polo player of the wealthy classes gave her a check and sent her to New York to get into the follies with a letter to his broker. And she did, but not through the broker. Because it seems that most of the girls in the Follies would be passed up by practically every broker in New York before Mr. Ziegfield has glorified them. And Dorothy says that about all Mr. Ziegfield does to glorify them is to get them to give...