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...souvenir-seekers. The President gazed vaguely at his 80-year-old uncle, John Wilder, singing lustily in the chorus in spite of the fact that he had fiddled for dancers far into the night before. ¶While the President and Mrs. Coolidge tour hither, thither, architects and workmen swarm about the White House, make repairs. A new roadway is to be completed in the White House grounds, and an electric elevator installed in place of the old lift once allegedly used by Kermit and Archie to bring ponies to their bedrooms...
...would seem that there must be a natural limit to the ability of a state to provide for its population. And in some this limit seems very near. When that time comes it will be as natural for a people to swarm as for a hive of bees. Where can the swarms...
...with tide-rips as it was last year when the Oxford shell water-logged and sank. And one's family could get a halfway decent look at the show this year, for it was held in the morning before the plebs were turned loose from the factories to swarm the banks and rowdy on the bridgeheads...
About 150,000 classroom teachers and school superintendents constitute the membership of the National Education Association. There is an annual meeting in July, when a goodly portion of them swarm into the biggest hall of the city lucky enough to have been named "convention city" the year before. It is a great vacation junket as well as a grave pedagogical palaver, a great time of speechmaking, report-reading, handshaking and theorizing...
...Paul of Tarsus was only one of the Apostles. He was not, like Paul von Hindenburg, of the divine lineage itself. . . . This old soldier, too illiterate to even educate himself by reading . . . rises in the glory of his godhead . . . President of the German Republic . . . and is surrounded by a swarm of blissful slaves...