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...Pitter-patter little toes, that's the way the dancer goes; skillful hands and manners sleek--broken hearts and droll bezique." So twitters and is twitted, and Hollywood dissembles another vapidity as young as the world, trotting out the freshly dusted effigies of Eros as it cheers the hero on to freedom from the thralldom of his conceit...
...living room. On it was engraved: "Calvin Coolidge-1872-1933." Above it hung an oil painting of the onetime Presidential yacht Mayflower, one of Calvin Coolidge's few genuine diversions in office. Harry Ross stood close by. The only sound in the stillness of the house was the pitter-patter of Tiny Tim's claws as the Coolidge chow came & went on the hardwood floors. Far away through the same night with many a long whistle there roared a 13-car special bearing the great of Washington to Northampton...
...Author. In a pitter-pattering introduction, Will H. Hays, Tsar of the cinema, thinks it "not without significance" that ''John Drinkwater, the distinguished dramatic poet . . . should have turned to industry for a new subject." Originally in the insurance business, John Drinkwater first attracted England's attention as a poet, then wrote plays in verse, then in prose. Some of them: Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, Alary Stuart. He has also written biographies: Mr. Charles, King of England, The Pilgrim of Eternity...
...When the rain goes a-pitter-patter," the Senior, today, refuses to be downhearted. To tell the truth he had rather looked askance upon the idea of parading about in the hot sun in the garb of a scholar, and the change of program would somewhat relieve his mind. Of course he sympathizes with the families who have come especially for this gala occasion, and he somehow feels personally responsible for the damage done to summer frocks; but Aunt Fanny is really quite comfortable on Brattle Street and an open fire does and to one's rooms...