Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...table sat Miss Laura Harlan,* onetime social secretary to Mrs. Harding, to Mrs. Coolidge. At the other end sat Mrs. Frank W. Stearns. Between them sat Washington newspaper women, guests of Mrs. Coolidge at No. 15 Dupont Circle. Descriptions of the reception said that Mrs. Coolidge saw before her a happy throng of friendly faces...
...Manhattan, playing pinochle, one Frank Frankenthal, night watchman, picked up his cards for a hand; saw five aces, smiled; six aces, scowled; seven aces, gasped; eight aces, leaped from his chair, whooped, gasped, fell unconscious, died...
...Fairly early in the afternoon I saw a fleet of fishing boats. . . . On one of them I saw some men and flew down almost touching the craft and yelled at them, asking if I was on the right road to Ireland. They just stared. Maybe they didn't hear me. Maybe I didn't hear them. Or maybe they thought I was just a crazy fool...
...hour later I saw land. . . . I flew quite low enough over Ireland to be seen, but apparently no great attention was paid...
...city before recognizing the flying field at Le Bourget. Said he: "I appreciated the reception which had been prepared for me and had intended taxiing up to the front of the hangars, but no sooner had my plane touched the ground than a human sea swept toward it. I saw there was danger of killing people with my propeller and I quickly came to a stop...