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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...School. Host Bacon is an authority on the New Testament. He has written a good-sized shelf of books on the subject.* Big of frame, he used to play football and the violin, equally well, as a Yale undergraduate. John Coolidge has been invited to stay under the Bacon roof (No. 244 Edwards St.) as long as he desires. It is 20 minutes by trolley from John Coolidge's office. It is less than a block from the scene of last week's automobile accident...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Crash! | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

...last year's flood destruction had been repaired. They stayed a night at Calvin Coolidge's 275-acre farm at Plymouth Notch. Housekeeper Aurora Pearce was ready for them with a fried chicken dinner and Presidential applesauce. Calvin Coolidge inspected his house from cellar to roof tree; also the barn, the hay rick, the new silo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: My Fellow Vermonters. . . . | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

...Dear Commander Byrd: A little while ago I asked mother if ten dollars would be enough to come in handy if sent to you, and she said 'yes.' Therefore I decided to send you ten dollars which I earned this Summer by painting the piazza roof, washing the muresco off the walls and ceiling of the bathroom, weeding the garden and various other similar jobs. I thought you might be able to buy some extra things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 24, 1928 | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

Lampy--It used to ruin Arthur's business when there wasn't any roof on the place. Why fellows, it used to rain in something terrible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 9/22/1928 | See Source »

Helen Wills & Helen Jacobs have much in common. Jacobs once lived under the same roof that sheltered Wills when she was born; their first names are the same, they are California tennis misses. But in trading drives from the baseline neither Jacobs nor any other woman has the ability of Wills. Valiantly but with many an error Jacobs sped the ball toward her opponent's backcourt boundary, thereby failed to win from Wills the national women's singles championship. After the match Wills rested in the Forest Hills, L. I., clubhouse, resumed play. Paired with Mrs. Hazel Hotchkiss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Netsters | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

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