Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...share his honors as the great artist and gentleman he was. This as a beau jeste to Americans whom he was most grateful to and has never tired of acknowledging that same great debt. No! No! No! Ellen Terry did not "detest" American audiences. It is sacrilege to say...
...only weighty discussion concerned the Kellogg multilateral treaty. While no longer permitting newsmen to speak of him as a mere "spokesman" for himself, the President still refuses to be quoted directly, thus making it easier for him to deny anything which newsmen might have thought they heard him say. Nonetheless, the ablest newsmen of the U. S. last week were certain they understood Mr. Coolidge's views on the treaty. This is what the President thinks: the treaty is good, but does not in any sense whatsoever constitute any reason whatsoever for the curtailment of U. S. arms...
...month, some say for three months, he had been at work on it. Two weeks before delivery he sent it to a printer, in greatest confidence. Back it came in long strips of type. He showed it first to William Joseph ("Wild Bill") Donovan of New York. He showed it to a few others. And again and again he read it all through to himself, in his Palo Alto study. Safe to say, that, years hence, he will associate that speech far more closely with that room than with the stadium in which it was for the last time voiced...
Peace: "I think I may say that I have witnessed as much of the horror and suffering of war as any other American. From it I have derived a deep passion for peace. . . ." Will cooperate with the League in science, etc. ". . . But we must and shall maintain our naval defense...
Chanel. The fame of Gabrielle ("Coco") Chanel has waxed since the War. Sweaters have made her name and her fortune, the light, boyish sweaters which form the sports costume of many an American and English woman. The story of Gabrielle is shrouded in mystery. Some say she is of Basque origin, the daughter of a peasant. Others declare her youth was spent in Marseilles, where the jerseys of sailors gave her the idea for the emancipated woman's golfing costume. Even today she is something of an enigma to gossip-loving Paris. "Coco" Chanel is not beautiful...