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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Doesn't he look well!" has become the stock remark of tourists who catch sight of President Coolidge in northwestern Wisconsin. Brown, brisk, he continued his vacation last week unirritated. He cast flies on the Brule River at all hours and put the largest fishes which unsuccessfully tried to eat the flies into the Cedar Lodge "live box," so that he could display them to visitors or eat them at pleasure. He kept his semiweekly office hours in the high school library at Superior, and made one unscheduled trip on which Mrs. Coolidge accompanied him. She sat quietly...
...Palo Alto's citizens met at the home of Professor Theodore Jesse Hoover, the hero's elder brother and valued adviser, to plan their part in the proceedings They decided to hold the ceremony in Stanford's roomy football stadium, where 90,000 persons can look on. They prepared to throw some of the campus fraternity houses open to visiting newsgatherers. Distinguished guests were to be accommodated in faculty homes, including the small model residences which Mrs. Hoover has been building with quiet generosity for low-salaried instructors to buy on the instalment plan...
Once the Other Grandmama's eldest brother was called King, Kaiser and All Highest War Lord. She has been wife to one king and mother to two; but now, when she rides out in Florence, no one cries, "Look! There goes the Dowager Queen Sophie of Greece. The Kaiser's sister...
...Lincoln Highway of the Arctic follows a line drawn, roughly, from the extreme northern point of Norway across the island of Spitsbergen to Point Barrow, Alaska. If you fly about half this distance and look down, as likely as not you will see the block of ice which happens to be the North Pole. At that point you may shake hands, as Pilgrims Byrd and Bennett did in May, 1926. Or you may bare your head, as Pilgrims Nobile, Amundsen, Ellsworth, etc., did in May, 1926. Or you may fly sternly on, as Pilgrims Wilkins and Eielson did in April...
...nice to look at-a lean little body and all dressed up in rakish clothes that nobody had ever seen before. Men said she was fast; but she was no girl for rough weather. They sent her out to sea as a noble experiment. A week passed and they didn't hear from her whose name was Rofa, 50-foot schooner, smallest of four small schooners racing from Sandy Hook to Santander, Spain. Her rigging was peculiar-designed by Herreshoff, who learned about sails in Scandinavian fjords. On the morning of the seventh day out, she had covered...