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...ones had been stolen by 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...
...German press was filled with pride last week when it made public a "last word" in civic modernity-an official airplane for Mayor Boess of Berlin. Germany is tightly sewn together by air routes between its principal cities. Officers of state invariably fly hither and thither to great public functions. But Mayor Boess-though, of course, he has a motor, a motor boat, and ample public money for his railway fare, when he wished to go, say, to the Leipzig fair- has lately felt almost medieval without a smart monoplane and liveried pilot...
Mildly appalled, the Senators refrained from insisting upon a reading, but they watched and inquired curiously as Senator Pepper trundled his burden hither and thither among the desks. Ripples of levity passed over the drowsy gathering as the bill was variously referred to as "that thing," "this huge document," "that 1,700 pages." After an hour's toying, "that thing" was passed...
With 1,000,000 miners idle and seemingly intent upon continuing so, the Government by an elaborate system of coal rationing cut normal consumption 50%. The King, after planning a holiday at Aldershot and Sandringham, canceled the special train which would have conveyed him thither in order to save coal. The normal railway service was cut 40%. The channel boats coaled exclusively abroad, and large shipments of foreign coal arrived on every steamer...
...artist-father's house on grass-grown Market Street (Newark) was "the resort of notabilities." Thither came Henry Ward Beecher, General McClellan, Horace Greeley, Edwin Booth, Frank Leslie. Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun had used to come. Buffalo Bill called next door. Thomas Edison had a shop around the corner...