Word: paderewskis
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...There is another tale of a White House dinner. Mrs. Coolidge was in a lively mood; she had attended a concert-the Philadelphia Orchestra, Paderewski, or Jeritza-and was quite enthusiastic ... until the President, laying down a fork and drawing a napkin across his lips, interjected: "'I can't understand why you keep running around to these musicales when there are five pianos right here in the White House...
...what, last week, did Paderewski rise from a sick...
High up in a Manhattan hotel a tired, grizzly man lay sick. It was Ignace Jan Paderewski, 65 years old, exhausted after a season of 70 concerts before some 250,000 people; too tired to play again this season; too sick to attend a testimonial dinner planned for him by the American Legion, to whose $5,000,000 endowment he had contributed $28,500, the proceeds of four concerts...
...Friends are here," Mme. Paderewski told him one afternoon last week, straightened his pillows, helped him into a faded, favorite bathrobe, and opened the door for a delegation of the American Legion, headed by National Commander John R. McQuigg. They had come to pin on him a Distinguished Service Medal suspended by a ribbon from a gold crossbar containing 74 diamonds...
...read: "To Ignace Jan Paderewski, artist, patriot and humanitarian, with the highest esteem of the American Legion, New York...