Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Brule. The vacation at Brule, Wis., was the happiest of all. The choose had finally been accepted. Hoover was nominated. There were fish, lots of them, to be caught. President Coolidge could and did say to news-cameramen: "Mr. Hoover won't carry on his end of the conversation...
...Hero, is going to get married, that he might be let alone. The newsgatherers were waving slips of paper which read: "Ambassador and Mrs. Morrow announce the engagement of their daughter Anne Spencer to Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh." Well? Col. Lindbergh compressed his lips and only opened them to say: "You know all about it. I have nothing to say. I will confine my remarks to aviation." The next day he flushed in angry silence at public comment and curiosity about his plans. Finally in Miami he said: "I believe the announcement is sufficient acknowledgement of the engagement...
...word and one word only more must I say. I think we should feel that if we separated without expressing our thanks to Mr. Camerlynck [applause], we should be accounted among the most ungrateful of mankind. Mr. Camerlynck has an absolute genius for the work he has undertaken [applause]. ... I do not know what my French colleagues think when they hear their speeches translated by Mr. Camerlynck into the English tongue. But I know what I always think when I hear my speeches translated into the French tongue, which is that it is a matter of most agreeable surprise...
...following day Sir Esme Howard felt obliged to say: "My statement was ... an expression of my personal opinion . . . and not given under instructions from my Government...
...say that the army is well disciplined. You may say, also, that the King has complete confidence in the government and in me. The King and I always have been and are today in the closest harmony...