Word: rapider
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Into the shopping district of Rapid City ventured Mrs. Coolidge & John Coolidge. At the butcher's, the baker's, the gift shop, they dallied; then they entered a jeweler's store. Mrs. Coolidge, peering through the glass counter at a darkly sparkling jumble of bracelets, brooches, silver chains, earrings and intricate pendants, spied a shiny ring, forged from the golden dust of the Black Hills. She turned to John Coolidge, said: "How would you like to have one of these?" John Coolidge was reported to have said: "I don't wear rings, thank...
...Rapid City became, suddenly, a noisy pandemonium. Mill whistles screeched, fire alarms wailed loudly, people cheered and shouted; through all this racket was deeply audible the steady stentorian drumming of an airplane motor. President Coolidge, a curiously small and inconspicuous figure, stood with a group of Sunday-School children, waving a white handkerchief as he craned up at the aviator who was circling the town barely above the trees. Presently the plane dipped sharply over where the President was standing, then flew swiftly away over the distant hills. The roar of its motor, all whistles and alarms dwindled...
...President and Mrs. Coolidge made ready to "break camp" in the Black Hills. Autumn, Washington, Duty were calling. But first they issued a blanket invitation to the villagers of Hermosa, between the state lodge and Rapid City, where they had been going to church the past summer, for a lawn social. Hermosa's census shows only a few score of residents, but hundreds acted upon the invitation. The young Reverend Rolf Lium, their summer pastor, stood beside his host and hostess to introduce every one. They had ice cream, cake, a cavalry band...
...waving their hats or their handkerchiefs from the porch of Camp Roosevelt, when the Presi- dent arrived in Yellowstone Park. In response, the President bowed; Mrs. Coolidge bowed, smiled; John Coolidge bowed, smiled. The song's lack of variety was balanced by its peculiar pertinency; the President had left Rapid City the night before, suffering from indigestion but had now recovered...
Artists, remembering figures on old vases of boys holding the wild, light reins of hurrying chariots, marble men lounging on their pedestals in an effortless perfection, men behind plows or on top of girders shoving or straining in to a sudden rapid beauty, could not deny some element of truth in these remarks. Nor could they regard the term "beauty show" as applied to a procession of pseudonymphs kept decently warm by hairpins and the emblem of their hometowns as more than a misappellation, not to be corrected by the inclusion of seminaked gentlemen...