Word: pined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...honor of being one of the last scheduled visitors to White Pine Camp fell to Herbert J. Tily of Philadelphia, chairman of the National Dry Goods Association, and Lew Hahn, of Manhattan, its managing director. These two reported that Prosperity's fingers had touched the clothing industry throughout the U. S. C Visitors at Paul Smith's climbed a tree, one armed with a jar of jam. They were "bear-hunting," endeavoring to recapture Babe, a bear cub brought there ten days previously by a Detroit cinema man. Finally bruin was coaxed to captivity...
...From the various mistresses-about-the-house, Mrs. Coolidge received gifts of pillows heavily pine-scented...
...President strode from his cabin bedroom, gave one last sigh as he gazed at fog-covered St. Regis Mountain, took one last peek into the woods around White Pine Camp. Then he awakened Mrs. Coolidge and they drove to the railroad station with the Bartons, without their breakfast coffee...
...Presidential party was 15 minutes early, so they waited in the automobile, surrounded by four bird cages and the two collies, before the special six-car train was ready. The engine hissed, the piston began to churn; the President waved goodbye to Gabriel (a town near White Pine Camp), Mrs. Coolidge filmed the natives with her cinema machine...
...Kipling "rebuke" by allegory and innuendo actually was "frank and familiar." But Englishmen who feel and talk otherwise took comfort from the fact that, though loud, Mr. Kipling is not laureate. In his heyday he was most useful, hymning England's dominion over palm and pine, glossing British exploitation by soul-stirring references to the White Man's Burden, making Empire-Building a very real, brutal, glorious thing for schoolboys to dream about. As late as last spring, during the coal strike, his first cousin, Premier Stanley Baldwin,* thought it worth while to rehearse softie of the oldtime...