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...District of Columbia, its 240,000 acres give lordly privacy to its little capital. La Cuesta Encantada. On this Enchanted Hill, the monarch's castle rears cathedral towers to the sky. On the hill's slope, lesser castles serve humbly as "guest houses'"-Casa del Mar, Casa del Monte, Casa del Sol. Hard by these are enchanted gardens, marble swimming pools, a zoo complete with lion, leopard, bear, elephant, chimpanzee. On the hillside roam bison, zebra, kangaroo, giraffe, llama, antelope, the emu and the gnu. These are but outward show. Within the palace portals is a treasury...
President Coolidge was subject to seasickness which always threatened to mar the pleasure of steaming up & down the Potomac with the Mayflower. On these excursions Col. Coupal would watch the President's face attain a certain degree of pallor and wryness. would pluck two pledgets of cotton from a case and on them pour a few drops of a liquid. Mr. Coolidge would plug the medicated cotton in his ears. Soon his face would relax and ruddy Col. Coupal was free to continue with his jovial stories...
...Mar man is concentrating on its 16-cylinder aluminum motor, designed by Col. Howard C. Marmon...
Tradition has it that "The London Morning Post" in good, conventional Victorian times could make or mar a marriage by designating the proposed alliance as "suitable" or, by implication, the reverse, and correspondingly to have one's engagement and subsequently one's marriage chronicled in a box on the front page of Saturday's "Transcript" is almost as much of a necessity in Boston as a ring and clergyman. Not to be so noticed is a contingency fraught with horror to the youth and chivalry of the community, and Mr. Alexander always exercised his high calling with discretion and magnanimity...
...Hill is Lawrenceville's big rival but Hill's big rival is Hotchkiss. which has lost regularly since 1927. Last week, with only the Lawrenceville tie this year and a Lawrenceville beating last year to mar its record, Hill beat Hotchkiss 12 to 0. Only a few Hill boys were allowed to go to the game, at Lakeville. Conn.; 200 or so Hill alumni remembered the cheers well enough to yelp for Hill's Fullback Dick Hebard. who made both touchdowns, the second with a 66-yd. run. His punts averaged 43 yd. and with one exception...