Word: porter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When with a ringing of bells, a great steel worm of a train slid into the Union Station at Washington, and Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge descended the car steps to the porter's rubber cushioned stool, there were three smiling faces looking up at them from the platform. There was the chubby face of the Secretary of Commerce; there was the long, lean face of the Secretary of Agriculture smiling from beneath its domed forehead; and there were the stone-chiseled features of the Secretary of State. He too smiled as he waited there, his head thrust forward over...
...salesman rang for a porter...
...both lived in Atlanta, Mayor Sims had issued a proclamation asking all the city to help in their welcome; the city councilmen had passed them a vote of gratitude; and the citizens arranged in their honor the celebration he had just witnessed. "Is there anything else, sir?" inquired the porter when he had made this clear. "Overcome with gratitude," murmured the salesman absently, "I can only thank...
...Keeper of the Bees-Gene Stratton-Porter - Doubleday Page & Co. ($2.00). The violent conjunction of a limousine and a trolley-car, last year in Los Angeles, (TIME, Dec. 15, MILESTONES) caused this novel to stand as its author's last. The fact that...
Freckles, her second book, has sold over 2,000,000 copies since its appearance in 1904 is some index to the degree of sorrow and disappointment the public must feel. A difference exists between a country's literature and its fiction. Mrs. Porter wrote none of the former and a great deal of the latter, sincerely compounding sweet sentiment with what hard-boiled editors call "nature stuff" and giving her main characters capitalized titles that were really poetic to multitudinous readers. The present volume retains this successful formula, telling the story of a Wounded Hero from the Great...