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...Year's morning, at eleven, there was a fanfare of trumpets. Military and naval aides advanced down the stairway. The President and Mrs. Coolidge followed and after them trooped Cabinet members and their ladies. In the Blue Room, Mrs. William Howard Taft, Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Jr., Mrs. Edward W. Eberle (wife of the Admiral), Mrs. Frank W. Stearns, John Coolidge (the President's son) and others were waiting. Secretary and Mrs. Hughes joined Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge in receiving the diplomatic representatives of 52 nations headed by Jules Jusserand of France. Next in order came the Supreme Court...
...room from the house of one John Hewlett, gentleman, who lived on Long Island in the early 17th Century. This Hewlett, since he had a word to say from time to time to a secret friend or a smuggler maybe, furnished his library with a little stairway to the cellar behind a sliding panel, by which means he managed his affairs quite neatly and kept mud from the hall carpet...
...duel for her hand; now he stood and watched her com ing down the stairs. He saw her silhouette above the banister, heard the thread of her frail singing and her cry, as she caught her heel in the carpet, slipped and fell down, down the great stairway-the thud as her head struck the oak floor. In the years that followed, he iso lated himself from men and affairs, rode about his plantation, distracted his loneliness with the pursuits that became a gentleman-drinking, dicing, riding. Sometimes he talked politics. Citizen Genet was rebuked; the country expanded westward; John...
Mile. Lallemant is a crystal gazer who, since she successfully predicted the future of Gaston Doumergue, President of France, has enjoyed boundless popularity. Her landlord objected to her fame when it began to wear out the carpet on the stairway of his house. He asked her to go. She refused. He sued her because of so many "comings and goings." She defended herself. The judge ruled that she could not be evicted since her stream of visits was made "by most honorable personalities in the most faultless manner...
President Obregon received Mr. Warren to the strains of The Star Spangled Banner. The American walked up the diplomatic stairway beneath archos of flowers to the golden reception room. In an interview with the President the Ambassador declared, under instructions from President Coolidge: "The relations we desire with this republic do not infringe in any way upon its nationality. Nations arise from deep causes that well up in individuals possessing common spiritual qualities and ideals. Your people possess theirs and we possess ours." He disclaimed any intention of aggrandizement on the part of the U. S., or a desire...