Word: station
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dining room. They were: Colonel Coolidge, the President's father, who chatted with Mrs. Goodhue, the mother-in-law; Dr. Olds, President of Amherst; Miss Laura Skinner of Manhattan; Mrs. R. M. Hills of Northampton; Mrs. Frank W. Stearns. Mr. Stearns was absent. He had gone to the Union Station to meet John Coolidge, the President's son, who was due on a 7:30 train. The President ate in silence, wondering where the boy was. Before breakfast was finished, Mr. Stearns returned, reported the train an hour late. When John arrived some time later, Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge...
...them. Whereupon the five men fell upon the secretary. Servants in the offing joined in the fight. A policeman rushed in; another rushed to a telephone. A few minutes later, arrived 20 more bobbies. The fight promptly ended. The five men were taken to the nearest police station, examined, proved to be agitators employed by reactionaries to coerce the Premier into abandoning the Universal Manhood Suffrage Bill...
...cortege then wheeled, pressed along the Friedensallee, packed with people even to the treetops. On the left, the Brandenburg Gate was re- passed as, the next moment, the procession marched solemnly and slowly down the Budapesterstrasse to the Potsdamerplatz where is situate the Potsdamer Railway Station...
...only are the students thus preyed upon by the police, but certain of the local inhabitants help themselves to tires, Fords, and parts thereof, with impunity. The police merely smile blandly. When the inexperienced student applies at the station for aid in locating his car, he is assured that some of his friends have probably borrowed it. After all, what is a Ford or two between friends...
...thirty days, purchased what is called a cornet. Being more than commonly considerate, he took the instrument to a vacant lot, and there, behind sheltering bill boards, gave vent to his musical complex. Such was the reward of his virtue, however, that he was taken to the police station as a "suspicious person." The following morning a wise judge praised his thoughtfulness in not practicing where he would disturb the neighbors and sent him back...