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...STREET SCENE???Dramatic slumming expedition (Pulitzer Prizewinner...
...STREET SCENE???Microcosmic disturbances in a tenement house...
Coolidge Neighbor. Many a U. S. citizen has treasured in his memory the swearing-in of Calvin Coolidge as President of the U. S.* Newspapers and feature writers united in picturing the scene???the simple Vermont farmhouse, the President's father administering the oath, the old-fashioned lamp whose rays illumined the occasion. Like later pictures of Mr. Coolidge cutting hay with a scythe, it was a demonstration of democracy in the high places, of a President's kinship with his people...
...some of the living are paraded with the dead Senator across the ridiculous and scandalous scene???Helen Hay, Rebecca Knox, Edith Root, Elinor Wylie,* who "had not then distinguished herself by her poetry or her love affairs, save for occasional passionate little verses"?not to mention Brandegee's "beloved ideal" not mentioned by name but described as "the wife of another distinguished statesman." This unknown woman, poor thing, was described at length...