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...Hoover. In mufti-no sugar-scoop coat-trailed by his secretariat, he drove around Lafayette Square to the buff-stucco Church of the Presidents, old St. John's (Episcopal). Surrounded by officialdom, Wife Eleanor, Mother Sara, he sat solemnly through an anniversary service. Presiding in the chancel was robust, 83-year-old Endicott ("Peabo") Peabody,* Groton School headmaster, who has given diplomas to Franklin Roosevelt and his sons, the sons and grandsons of Theodore Roosevelt and 1,400 other high-bred U. S. youths. The President's proud face was humble, his head bent, as old Dr. Peabody...
Policeman Hoover said he was gratified with the results of his trip. His tour had been all business. One proof: though he looked well-fed and robust, as usual, he showed no trace of suntan. The other: the results...
...Robust son of a Bloomington, Ill. country doctor, Hubbard quit school at 15, became door-to-door salesman for his cousin (J. Weller & Co., Practical Soaps). Few years later, a dandy in sideburns and tight pants, he had risen to No. 1 U. S. "soap-slinger," become partner of the soap firm of John D. Larkin in Buffalo, N. Y. His supersalesmanship made a household word of Larkin's Creme Oatmeal Soap. He invented the Club Plan, pioneered the premium method of selling (celluloid collar buttons, buttonhooks, "solid silver" spoons, the Chautauqua Lamp...
...psychiatrists have never made clear the difference, if any, between scientific and artistic talent. Nor have the doctors explained whether a neurotic is: 1) a long-fingered person of "artistic temperament"; 2) a crank who looks under the bed every night or constantly washes his hands; or 3) a robust grappler with convention...
...Robust and stouthearted was Father Dearborn, who began in 1775 A Journal kept by Capt. Henry Dearborne, of the Proceedings, and Particular occurrences which happened within my knowledge to the Troops...