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...Club of Washington. For table decorations, she sent pink roses from the White House greenhouses. ¶ When invited to spend his summer vacation in Idaho, President Coolidge let it be known that he thought Idaho too far west. This limits his field. He is not going to pitch a tent in the middle of an Iowa cornfield; nor is he likely to choose a Rocky Mountain playground, away from the angry farmers' area.* Current political strategy hints that the President will select the Black Hills of South Dakota or some convenient fishing spot in Wisconsin. To him will...
From jigging veins of rhyming mother wits And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay, We'll lead you to the stately tent of war, Where you shall hear the Scythian Tamburlaine Threatening the world with high-astounding terms, And scourging kingdoms with his conquering sword. -MARLOWE...
...night in a tent pitched about a mile from Quemados, Cuba, thirsty mosquitoes sang their monotonous whining song; on a cot, Private John R. Kissinger lay awake. It was hot and sticky; he did not slap the stinging pests away. He had volunteered to Dr. Walter Reed, head of the U. S. Yellow Fever Commission, to subject himself to the bites of mosquitoes that had sucked the blood of men ill with the fever; in this way the Commission hoped to find whether the mosquito carried the deadly germ.* He made the offer knowing that his chances for life were...
...tense, passionate ascetic, usually clad only in a loin cloth and a sash, was easily the dominant figure of the last Indian National Congress. The Occidental press was poorly represented, and only recently* has the picturesque story of the Congress come to light. It sat in a great tent of hand-woven khaddar, at Gauhati, in remote Upper India. Great palms and forest trees canopied the Congress tent, the 5,000 delegates and spectators slept in the open or in bamboo huts along the shores of the broad Brahmaputra dotted with tiny islands. The delegates have no official status...
...fierce battle of San Juan Hill, Van Brunt carries his wounded comrade safely to the hospital tent, where Bert surrenders Mary's U. S. flag to his more fortunate rival before he dies. But it was Bert whose hysteria in rushing upon the enemy without orders, precipitated the charge that drove the Spaniards from the hill...