Word: relationship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...once the curious began to ask: "Will Stearns be another Colonel House?" The facts of the relationship between Mr. Stearns and the President seem to be simply these: that Stearns has supported Coolidge through the thick and thin of politics. That he was Coolidge's right hand man in the settlement of the Boston police strike. These activities earned Stearns the titles from political opponents of "Lord Lingerie" and "Cal's Angel." As far as several able political correspondents can make out, however, the relation between Mr. Stearns and the new President is only about as "sinister" as friendship...
Dealing with the relationship of America and Europe and what might have been had this country not volte-faced from the League, the article exhibited some interesting sidelights on Mr. House's late intimacy with Woodrow Wilson...
...Board of 'Advisors. "The students' tours have been organized", he declared, "to meet a double need: the need for travel as a broadening and vitalizing element in the education of our young men and women, and the need for travel as a means of establishing a closer intellectual relationship between the youth of America and of other countries...
...merely as an auxiliary, as a stepping stone. Herein its advocates are wise. Today as yesterday the people are too busy to substitute a new language for every-day use. Tomorrow the case is apt to be the same. Not until the economists have taught the people a new relationship between the mark, the pound, the franc, and the dollar, will there be time to begin learning a common denominator for the un, deux, trois, the ein, zwei, drei, and the one, two, and three...
...hoped for higher things and read books on military tactics on the side. The war found him a music hall success?thanks partly to the assistant he had rescued from starvation?a young French lady named Elodie whose husband had left her. Andrew liked Elodie (though, of course, their relationship was just one of those hygienic affairs), but she hated fresh air and left her lingerie around the flat too much, so he went to war, became a brigadier general and fell in love with Lady Auriel Dayne. Of course, that makes a lot of trouble. The piece is well...