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...praised by the Topeka Mail and Breeze as a past master at the art of settling a dispute without an open quarrel. In that capacity he has been of inestimable service to successive Administrations. For he has what William Allen White calls "a blessed gift as a hand-shaker" and "the indefinable thing called charm which binds men to one another forever." "Add to that," writes White, "a gentle, ingratiating voice, and an easy flow of innocuous conversation unimpeded by pestiferous ideas, and you have a creature God-sent into politics...
Sunday. (Shaker Heights, Cleveland). Rose, shaved and bathed early so that he could see his grandson, John Michael McGean, aged five weeks, during some of the latter's few waking moments. . . . Motored with Mrs. Baker to see the new home of his friend John Stockwell. Showed special interest in John Stockwell's library. . . . Home for Sunday dinner, the best part of which (for Mr. Baker) was ice cream. . . . Changed to old shirt and work trousers, left off hat, coat and waistcoat, rolled up workshirt sleeves and fell to cutting cornstalks in the garden. Carried the corn stalks in armfuls...
Another strange sight is the displacement of the traditional still life vases and fruits by the cocktail shaker, lemon and square-shouldered gin bottle with Gordon on the label...
...spirit within him that makes the man supreme in the world and allows him to control materialistic things. . . . Consider the average 150-pound body of a man from its chemical aspect. It contains lime enough to whitewash a fair-sized [sic] chicken-coop, sugar enough to fill a small shaker, iron to make a tenpenny nail, plus water. The total value of these ingredients is 98 cents...
...know I think a man coming to Harvard with the preconceived belief firmly fixed that the college was secretly educating everyone to be a Shaker would see only the things which confirm him in his belief...