Word: olds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...section. His young daughters are "in society," which he shuns. He plays no golf, no cards, no craps. He sings "darkey songs" accompanying himself on the piano. In South Carolina he is a potent fisherman, not with rod and reel but with a bamboo pole and a piece of old string with which, from the swamp-bordered streams of his State, he pulls out many a "red breast." Only an old Negro, son of his father's slave, accompanies him, knows his bait. He is the Senate's most active tobacco chewer. A spittoon, into which he sends...
Citizen Coolidge arrived at the Union Station at 7 a.m. President Hoover sent his secretary, George Akerson, to greet him. They drove to the Willard Hotel, Citizen Coolidge did not register. He shook hands with his old friend Mack Vogel, elevator operator. On the third floor he entered suite No. 328, the one with light blue and gold decorations, which he had occupied free of cost as Vice President. Here he breakfasted with his one-time secretaries and bodyguards. Afterward came callers?Senator Smoot, Secretary of Labor Davis, Tariff Commission Chairman Marvin, Federal Farm Board Chairman Legge, many another. They...
...Miami Beach, Palm Beach, Southampton, Bar Harbor. Last week Bonwit Teller made partners of the public, offered 60,000 shares of preferred at $52. For fiscal year ending Jan. 31, 1929, Bonwit Teller showed net earnings of $563,066.66. The new financial structure will be operated by the old management...
...looked around and called for Abie. Abie is my $150-a-week New York office boy. He's worth it! ... Abie started to look around and found an old woman, thrown out of her berth, completely nude. Abie saved her, led her up to the bank. She went along quietly. Not a bit of hysteria, embarrassingly nude as she was. Her calm was wonderful...
Rockwell Kent, artist, cruising the North with two 22-year-old companions on the 33-ft. sailing yacht Direction, in search of desolate scenes to paint, escaped with them uninjured when the Direction crashed on rocks near Godthaab, Greenland...