Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...porch of a hostelry in Old Faithful, there was parked an old baggage-truck. When Mrs. Coolidge saw this early one morning, she beamed. To secret service men, to John Coolidge she expressed a desire to be wheeled about in the rude conveyance. Laughing, John Coolidge trundled his mother here and there until the diversion grew wearisome...
Unimpressed, Patrolman Gallagher escorted Catcher Devormer, his sons, their toadies, to the police station. Soon he saw Catcher Devormer get in a taxi and set off for the Polo Grounds, saw Catcher Devormer's sons, jeering and sneering, trot back to their home. The judge had given a suspended sentence to the Devormers, pere & fils, had gently advised the brothers to play no more one o'cat in St. Nicholas Avenue, the catcher-father to interfere with no more officers...
...club, who are too antique for the frantic antics of the pastimes practiced by younger popinjays. No longer foppish, no longer clothed in silk or jerkins, they still narrow their eyes to an Eastern slant, still gabble noisily as they heave their greens about, "the closest thing I ever saw. You couldn't have put a peacock's feather between...
...Soon he saw Irene Baierele, carrying a payroll package from bank to office. With protective gallantry he said to her: "Bow your head and follow me in silence." Arriving at police headquarters they went together to a private room. Here, still gallant, Herr de Bay relieved Fraulein Baierele of her package and vanished, while she waited his return. Later he was discovered in a gambling club, disposing of Fraulein Baierele's package in dishonest fashion. Genuine policemen arrested him, took him to court, removed him, silent, his head bowed, to jail; where for five years he must remain...
Umbrella. In Dayton, "home of flying," the eyes of children looked intently upward. Thirty-five feet above them they saw Arthur Kraft with his mother's silk umbrella. He jumped; the umbrella turned inside out. The doctor examined; reported him unbroken but suffering from shock. Smoke Cloud. Observers saw the black bulk of the lie de France, French liner, approaching New York Harbor. They saw an airplane approach the lie de France, circle it, spouting white smoke. No longer did they see the liner. The smoke test, an Army experiment, had completely swathed the steamship in a shroud...