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...Plumber...
...Recently, President Coolidge received his first plumber's bill in two years-as the result of calling a local plumber to fix water pipes in White Court (TIME, July 6). Last week, it was reported that, for further repairs to his summer plumbing, he had had two skilled mechanics, part of the crew of the Mayflower, visit White Court...
...likewise since he is subject to rose fever. At 4:30 p. m., Justice and Mrs. Sanford of the U. S. Supreme Court called. For dinner Mr. and Mrs. Stearns appeared. At 9:30 the cook reported that the cold water tap was emitting steam. Mr. William Buist, local plumber, was summoned. He arrived en flivver with his tools, but was refused admittance by the Marines until his summoning had been verified. Correspondents said that the Marines were suspicious of him because he arrived with his tools instead of coming empty-handed and going back for his tools...
...President received his first plumber's bill in two years. (White House bills are paid by the Government...
...George Eernard Shaw, Arnold Bennett, and others to the contrary notwithstanding. Mr. Reed is courageous; but, although his volume is not yet on sale; it is a good wager that the average of his selections will fall considerably below the poetic level of those delectable lines on "The Young Plumber of Leigh", which Mr. Bennett, if correctly quoted in the international book Review, puts forward as his favorites...