Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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However, a photograph published by the New York Times which is herewith enclosed, shows Mr. Coolidge standing, on the occasion cited. A friend of mine who saw the movie reproduction, states that Mr. Coolidge stood on this occasion...
...Secretary Lament's department which greatly vexes State Department representatives occurred last week in Vienna where 40 U. S. commercial attaches from all Europe gathered to hear a trade talk by Dr. Julius Klein, chief of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce now traveling abroad. Foreign countries saw in this business conference only another manifestation of "Salesman Sam." The London Daily Express snorted...
...party of 30 Britons and U.S. citizens came to South Africa last week on the new and luxurious Canadian Pacific liner Duchess of Atholl. They saw Cape Town, traveled inland to the diamond mines, and leaving the railroad, embarked in motor busses for the Kruger National Park game preserve to see the wild animals...
...Clever with horses, he hired on as driver to a canal captain and then fell heir to the boat. For "cook," meaning servant, companion, and mistress-as-long-as-compatible, he hired vivacious Molly; for driver he hired Fortune Friendly, variously parson and pinochle player. Dan first saw Fortune racing from a village with the entire population thundering hotfooted in his wake. Cornered in a barn, Fortune delivered, gasping, a hell-and-damnation sermon which left not a member of his congregation unchastised. Afterward he explained to Dan'l that he had contracted to give six sermons, but finding...
...partner in the Detroit plumbing concern of Buick & Sherwood. At that time, Henry Ford was a machinist. R. E. Olds was making his first experiments with the Oldsmobile. Novel was the theory that a gasoline motor could furnish better transportation power than the horse. But Mr. Buick saw the future of the motor car. He sold his Buick & Sherwood interest...