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...shirt, they soon were regaled with coffee, sandwiches, perfectos, etc., etc., not to mention genial wisecracks and charming smiles, all served with a maximum of relish after the excitement by perhaps the most persuasive host and hostess in all U. S. politics-Speaker of the House and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth...
Four years ago, there was a rumor in Washington to the effect that Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, 42, was about to have a baby. Experienced newshawks didn't quite know what to do with the story, even if they could verify it which they couldn't quite think how to. Several days later a cub on the United Press picked up the rumor from his superiors, and, without thinking much about it, telephoned Mrs. Longworth...
...possibilities for compromise. He himself says little, letting the White House atmosphere and a few wry questions stimulate the mental activity of the lieutenants. Then, as the lieutenants plan and discuss, President Coolidge draws negative lines here and there. After last week's Flood Control conference, Speaker Longworth, Floorleader Tilson and Representatives Snell (New York), Madden (Illinois) and Kopp (Iowa) emerged from the White House talking about compromises which President Coolidge would be able to approve. The effect of the compromises would be, it was said, to keep the $325,000,000 expenditure "estimated" in the Senate bill actually...
...When the returns came in, she was to be seen nowhere near the smoke-fouled headquarters of Small or Thompson. She had headquarters of her own in Chicago, full of fresh air, flowers, candy and lady friends. Her daughter, Katrina, helped answer the telephone. Her friend Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, the "Princess Alice" of Rooseveltian days at the White House and now the wife of the Speaker of the House, helped add up returns and receive callers and made the victory photographs just twice as distinguished...
Comtesse de Chambrun (née Clara Longworth of Cincinnati, sister of Speaker Nicholas Longworth) was made a member of the French Legion of Honor, in recognition of her researches to explode the theory that Francis Bacon wrote the works of William Shakespeare. For the last 26 years she has been a resident of France and Morocco, where her husband, General le Comte Jacques-Adalbert de Chambrun, has been stationed for eight years...