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...California. He has been mentioned as the Rockefeller candidate for Board Chairmanship of Standard Oil of Indiana. Once (in 1923) Mr. Kingsbury, taking a cross-continental trip, was shocked to discover waiting for him at every station no less strange a present than a bag of onions. The onion-sender was Herbert Fleishhacker. Soon, at the Anglo & London-Paris National Bank, there arrived a return present from Mr. Kingsbury. The Kingsbury gift consisted of two water-buffaloes, several crates of smaller animals, and a liveried bugler to announce the arrival of the menagerie. Buffaloes, animals, bugler were all sent...
...sympathizers sat in cheapest seats with stench and tear bombs ready. At the signal they let fly, aiming not at the players but at the patently godless Frankfurters who sat in orchestra stalls. Ladies in sparkling décolleté who had never smelt anything worse than an onion, found their gowns and hair suddenly reeking with a liquid that stank like putrid eggs. Gentlemen in evening dress who had never wept, shed rivulets as tear bombs burst around them. Amid frantic pandemonium the élite of Frankfurt rushed stumbling forth pellmell. Meanwhile the good and pious in the gallery...
...Teatro Colon is no ordinary South-American opera house, such a dirty and pretentious little place as is to be found in almost every town, full of onion-eating opera lovers gazing at tenors who yodel and choke. El Teatro Colon is an enormous building of marble and white cement, facing a palmed piazza. In it there is room for 3,500 people to sit; these all come invariably in evening dress...
...mortgage was being foreclosed on a broken-down Indiana onion farm which President Coolidge was given "for an unrendered service to agriculture." There were bills to be signed-$6,792,000 for Army Housing, $125,000,000 for new Federal buildings throughout the land. People were already agitating about the next "Summer White House" and suggesting places as exotic as Hollywood, Calif., despite the President's known feeling that he should stay near Washington this summer. There was also the Jardines' dinner, which President Coolidge had to attend alone, Mrs. Coolidge not feeling well enough, after her cold...
...trip to Bermuda which he had promised himself for a long time, in fact ever since the muddy slush in the holes of Massachusetts Avenue began to get on his nerves and in his shoes. But even the in-elemency of New England weather, and his interest in the onion and Easter lily crop in Bermuda--which is doing nicely, thank you--could not keep him from what he considered a duty as well as a pleasure. For man does not live by--but we all know that story...