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...From Hutchinson, Kans., started one Vada Watson, 19, blue-eyed, slender, beautiful, who won a beauty contest at the inaugural ball of Governor Ben S. Paulen. She took with her a sack of wheat-wheat harvested by Warren G. Harding on a Kansas farm less than two months before his death. She bore it to Calvin Coolidge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Mr. Coolidge's Week: Feb. 2, 1925 | 2/2/1925 | See Source »

...Slender, like Pershing, and youthful in appearance and manner. General Bullard has always lived at a rapid pace, and the conclusion of his career was no exception. The last few days were filled with enough activities, social and military, completely to wear out an ordinary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Retired | 1/26/1925 | See Source »

...Youngest. The thin and consciously smart figure of a comedy went down the receiving line last week. When they talked it over afterward, the opinion of those present was that under the slender smartness lay incipient anemia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Jan. 5, 1925 | 1/5/1925 | See Source »

...gentleman stepped over the White House threshold. Yes, it was the same place. It was some time since he had frequented its portals or had arrived there as a dinner guest. In those days, he had been welcomed by a different host- a taller man of eloquent tongue, equally slender, with face even more austere, with clear-some said cold- eyes. The entering guest paused only a moment on the threshold. Then Bernard M. Baruch, Chairman of the one-time War Industries Board, close friend of Woodrow Wilson, entered to dine with Calvin Coolidge and presumably to discuss farm problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Mr. Coolidge's Week: Dec. 1, 1924 | 12/1/1924 | See Source »

...means of exhibition baseball games in Europe (TIME, Sept. 29), disbanded in Paris. Some headed for Berlin, others for Rome, some for the Riviera, some for the battlefields. All were agreed that the trip had gone far enough. Despatches stated no causes, but probable ones were: bored spectators, slender receipts, foul weather, diverting sights, fare, people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Abandoned | 11/24/1924 | See Source »

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