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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Author. Thin as a rail, Frank Thiess, when high-schooling, tried to look like Abraham Lincoln, his hero. Result: teachers dubbed him idiot. Becoming a famed author, "I loved as passionately as Romeo, hated as intensely as Othello . . . publishers ran after me like hungry chickens. . . . My countrymen disliked my attitude [when] I boxed in public, had photographs with few clothes on in different magazines. ... All my traits were labelled 'American...
...entirely new automobile. It has no chassis. It has no springs. It has a 60-inch wheel base (a little more than half as long as a Model A Ford). If its owner is a tall man he can stand on the ground and look over its top. It weighs 600 lb. It will be shipped in a weatherproof packing case which has a hinged door and will serve as its garage. It will go 50 miles on a gallon of gasoline. It has a 4-cylinder air-cooled engine. It is a two seater but three can squeeze into...
...White House ceremony this early afternoon and the luncheon. The ceremony was particularly impressive. ... I look upon it as a great historical event. I was delighted to see Mr. Hoover again?I am referring now to the President. . . .* I was especially glad to see Mr. Kellogg. He is looking hale and hearty. I notice he has taken on some flesh...
...circumstances were enormously difficult because: 1) On the arc of politics M. Briand is several degrees farther to the Left than M. Poincare and would therefore naturally look for support in the Chamber of Deputies to a new alignment of factions and farther to the Left. 2) The 125 radically Radical-Socialists, on whom Briand has often relied before, were left out of the last Poincare Cabinet, are in a huff, and last week made exorbitant demands as the price of their support. And they militantly demanded exclusion from the new Cabinet of go-getting Andre Tardieu, "the most American...
...great-grandchildren will be much more likely to stop and look at an old portrait on the stairs if it moves them to say 'What an interesting old girl she must have been,' than if it is just a pretty face. Charm lies in character...