Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge had her son John's to think about. He was leaving her again, going East for his first job. Inquiries and arrangements had been made with the New York, New Haven & Hartford R. R. after John and his father had decided that railroading would be a good thing to learn, from the bottom up. Mrs. Coolidge spent Labor Day getting John's things packed up and sitting with him on the porch. His mother and father knew how hard on John the Publicity thing could be. Secret Service Man Russell Wood, the boy's constant companion...
...showed how far the Publicity thing could be carried when, as John passed through Manhattan, a newsgatherer noticed and reported even the two battered old felt hats strapped on the outside of one of John's two hat boxes...
...finds and restores a lost thing in Germany is legally entitled to a reward of 10% of the value of what has been restored...
...finest motor car smashups in all the World happen at little crossroads in rural France. For one thing there are no speed laws and barely any traffic. Why then drop below 100 kilometers per hour (62 m. p. h.), just because the perfect road down which one is whizzing must soon cross another? Sacre bleu! If one is a French chauffeur, and if one has waited in the sun all morning at the wheel of a Bugatti or a Farman* then what joy, what exhilaration, when one's fat Spanish employer and a couple of his "little girls" scramble...
...thing the notorious Russian gigolo, Alexander Dvorjanin Zoubkov, who married Wilhelm's eccentric sister, Princess Victoria zu Schaumburg-Lippe (TIME, Sept. 28), sent to the Chateau at Doom a copy of his outrageous and scurrilous memoirs, inscribed...