Word: roses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Over No. 15 Dupont Circle, late one afternoon last week, the Presidential flag dipped in the fresh breeze, rose for the first time to the top of the flagstaff there. Before the door of the white marble mansion, President Coolidge stood with his white collie, Rob Roy, posed for photographers, followed the dog over the threshold into his new home. Through the huge foyer he walked, past the costly Gobelin tapestry at his left, up the marble stairway lined with heads of mountain goats, lions, elk and caribou. Into the large room next to the library that...
...evening the President and Mrs. Coolidge sat down in Adam* chairs to an Adam table in the five-windowed dining-room decorated in rose tapestry paper, ate their first meal in the temporary White House. Fifty-eight guests could easily have dined there with them. For a more festive night they left the pink and white Louis XIV ballroom across the hall, with its balcony, fireplace and paintings by many masters...
Shortly before the accident, Buenos Aires, led by its mayor, had thronged the harbor to watch the covey of broad-winged Loening amphibians come swooping in from Mer del Plata, the Argentine's summer capital. Crowds had followed, by motor and field-glass, as the ships rose again and repaired to Palomar for the night...
...Cleveland average fell to 1,410 c. c. "During that [War] year none but the veriest fool was left destitute; the others were all in the Army or earning good wages in civilian life. . . . In 1919, when industrial stagnation set in, the average brain volume of our social failures rose to 1,520 c.c. That looked serious to us and with great interest we read the prognosis of bankers and captains of industry regarding the future. According to predictions the situation improved in 1920, and our mean brain volume sank once more to near the pre-War level...
This was at the dedication ceremony. Representing the Aeolian Co. Architect Whitney Warren rose from his chair to deliver remarks appropriate. "The soul is not always in haste, the eye does not always seek the restless gesture of the skyscraper, never attaining its sky. A little rest, a little peace, a simplicity complete, a dream symbolized, as Colonel Michael Friedsam has so fittingly said, by the sounds of lute and viol in castle parks-I hope that the Aeolian Building conveys something of this. In its interior it contains all that modern musical demands may require...