Word: sons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...volunteered no comment. But, as every one knows, so soon as a subject of pressure is corked in one place, it is likely to leak out in another. Last week, anxious to guess what President Coolidge was thinking about the 1928 election, people passed around a remark, attributed to Son John Coolidge. Asked what he was going to do the coming summer, John Coolidge was said to have let slip: "Go to Europe, I guess, unless Father runs again...
...milk shake is a British Knight of Grace of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem. One of the two genii of the fountain is a fabulously shrewd and rich international night club man. The Knight of Grace is Chairman Frank Henry Cook of the Board of Thomas Cook & Son, Ltd., famed world-wide tourist agents. The genii control La Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits et des Grands Express Européens, which, however, one calls "Wagons-Lits," ("Vagon-Lee"), and everyone knows to be the firm which owns all the sleeping cars on the Continent.* Last week "Wagon-Lits...
...earnest temperance reformer, the late Thomas Cook (1808-1892). He became a travel agent through promoting excursions to temperance meetings, circa 1841; but his field became international and finally circumnavigatory when he organized the first world tour for tourists in 1872. Perhaps his proudest moment came when Thomas Cook & Son exclusively arranged the transport of that British army which sailed up the Nile to relieve General Gordon at Khartoum (1884). Since then "Cooks' " has stood in travel service for something equivalent to "Sterling." Today the Chairman of "Cooks'," a Knight of Grace, has not strayed so far from...
...young woman soon proceeded to relate how she had been left for dead when the Royal Family were executed at Ekaterinburg in East Russia, July 16, 1918; how a young Bolshevik had rescued and carried her off to Bucharest, Rumania; and how she had there given birth to a son...
Lauder. Now on his "5th Annual Farewell Tour" of the U. S. is Sir Harry Lauder. Last week in Manhattan he rang a new change on his old story of how, when his son John was killed in the War, he pocketed his grief "and was singing for the Tommies four days later." Last week he claimed that, although stricken with grief at the death of Lady Lauder (TIME, Aug. 8), he has again mastered himself and "Now I find singing the only way to forget...