Word: stones
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover last week drove her Packard to Richmond, Va., and back (225 mi.) to inspect an exhibit of portraits of early Virginians. Her guests were three - Mrs. Vernon L. Kellogg, Mrs. H. S. Cummings and Mrs. Harlan Fiske Stone. A chauffeur rode idly in her car, a body guard trailed in another...
...three years has been, occupied by James John Walker (48). Mayor Walker (he is addressed never as "Your Honor" but as "Mister Mayor," like ''Mister President") last week laid a public school corner stone at Coney Island, broke ground for a new subway, endorsed National Hospital Day, held his 6-year-old nephew Paul Burke on his knee at City Hall while the lad was publicly immunized against diphtheria to the boom of flashlights, prepared to attend the Kentucky Derby. Also, he pondered this question: Should he take an eagerly-offered renomination from Tammany in the primary next...
...Author. In Yonkers, N. Y. (where Poet John Masefield once worked in a carpet factory), lived Poet Robinson. He had been through the good schools of Maine and spent two years at Harvard. In Manhattan next, while Masefield tended a Sixth Avenue bar, Robinson checked off loads of stone delivered for subway construction. There Theodore Roosevelt discovered him, offered him a consulship in Mexico. But the poet refused to leave Manhattan, accepted instead a job at the Customs House. A slow recognition, starting with the Pulitzer Prize in 1921, culminated two years ago with lavish sales of Tristram, his third...
Four perished at Catlett, Va. At Brookville, Md., a 300-year-old stone house lost its roof in a gale, crushing out the life of an 88-year-old woman...
Horrified servants watched as the Papal barouche, careening, bouncing, made the circuit once and then crashed splintering into a heavy stone portico supporting the stairs down which His Holiness was expected momentarily to descend. Blood spattered and gushed to form a thick, sluggish pool upon the flagstones. One of the Irish horses had been gashed and killed in the clattering impact. The barouche was thoroughly wrecked...