Word: robbed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White House office, friend of all dignitaries for the last 20 years; Erwin Geisser, the President's stenographer; Katherine Gwynn, Mrs. Coolidge's maid; John May, White House butler, valet ad interim to the President; Julia Jongbloet, cook, successor to the famed Martha M. Mulvey; Rob Roy, collie; and Paul Pry (the report that Paul Pry, grown vicious, was about to be disposed of, seems to have been an unfounded libel). Not included in the party were Mrs. Jaffrey, Presidential housekeeper (on vacation) ; Wilson Jackson, master of pets; Rudolf Forster, executive clerk (on duty in Washington...
...afternoon voyage down the Potomac aboard the Mayflower, Calvin Coolidge went past M. Vernon and back. His guests : news correspondents and photographers, Collie Rob Roy. Pencils and cameras were not allowed. Luncheon was served on deck...
...made him suffer the ribaldries of his friends who have "made sport of him, expressing feigned surprise that he sold his name, picture and reputation in connection with such a low-priced* cigar as those advertised." Other cigars named for famed persons : 15 cents or less: Peter Schuyler, Rob ert Burns, (Daniel) Webster,f (Vitus) Bering (discoverer of the Straits), ‡ William Penn, Raphael, Duke of Savoy, Flor de Spencer, Hanan Bros. (Shoe People), Tom Wilson, Lady Churchill, Captain Marryat. More than 15 cents: Henry Clay, Manuel Garcia. Cigars named after fictional persons: Monte Cristo, Robin Hood...
...burglar comes to rob...
...will be moderately amused by this fable of the neglected son. After 20 years of loneliness, he suddenly determines to plunge himself in the bubbling springs of champagne that make Montmartre such a fertile hill of pleasure. His father, far off in Wall Street, is warned and appears to rob him of the French cocotte who might have married him. Buster Collier plays this young man congenially. Rather less effective was Jacqueline Logan as the French girl surrounded by Parisian night life that obviously existed only in the excited brain of some Hollywood director...