Word: spendings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President let it be known that he was trying to prevail upon his father to spend the winter at the White House to get out of the chilly drafts in the Vermont hills; furthermore that his father likes to have his name, John C. Coolidge, spelled with the middle "C", to distinguish him from the President's son John...
...Situation is dominated by one fact. The Socialists have bolted from the Herriot Radical-Socialist bloc, which it was hoped would solidly support the new Government. This left the residual Radicals, and indeed all the individual factions, in a "majority" position, and caused the statesmen of France to spend an arduous week trying to add up and juggle the various groups into a real majority...
Meanwhile Publisher McCormick had put a collar on the bulldog in the form of Liberty, a brass-studded fiction journal, designed to attract readers who might otherwise spend their five cents on the Saturday Evening Post. New paper-mills were bought to serve the News and Liberty. The old bulldog had grown...
...been a source of great interest to me. I have wished the Book Reviews were more extensive and was very glad to find so good a review of A. Edward Newton's new book, The Greatest Book in the World, in the Oct. 5 number, Page 17. We spend our winters in Florida and our summers in Maine. I will send the Florida address as soon as we know where it will be. Don't let me miss a number, as happened last year when we made a change of residence...
...Boston Transcript was reminded of a quiet man, still (presumably) knocking about the world somewhere, "who at the age of about 50 made up his mind to spend the rest of his life in studying at various universities. . . .This person first took the course at Paris and then went on to Vienna, with the intention of going on to Jena and Heidelberg after that, and of eventually bringing up at Oxford or Cambridge. . . . He must be a sort of Wandering Jew of erudition, with the important difference . . . that he goes around the world happily instead of miserably, and may leave...