Word: two
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Boris didn't see the arrival of two top-hatted gentlemen with whom The Chief and his wife motored two miles to the White House, where Calvin Coolidge stood in the Blue Room to greet them. Outside, two dozen motor cars were in line. Mr. Coolidge and The Chief went out and got into the first car, their ladies following in the next one. The chauffeur of the No. 1 car stepped on the self-starter. Wheels within groaned loudly but the motor would not start. The chauffeur gasped at himself and the motor. The Chief looked worried. Cameramen...
...mopped up for German stragglers. General Neville had hastily established headquarters in a basement where he was busy issuing orders for the disposition of troops. His orderly hung the General's field overcoat in front of the house to dry. Along came mule and caisson with two doughboys perched aloft. German booty was in their minds and in their itching fingers, and the forest-green overcoat looked to them like field-gray. They proceeded to hack the embroidered sleeves off the overcoat with trench knives; scalps for their sweethearts at home. A good story would be made...
...past many years there has been much talk of changing the name of our city. It seems that the Postoffice Department gave our first settlers a choice of two names; Ute and Grand Junction, there being no alternative. Grand Junction was naturally selected as the better of the two...
...Chief went downstairs to breakfast alone. The rest of the family was late. Afterwards Mr. Justice Stone dropped in for a chat. A truck came up with two sacks of mail-presents for The Chief, which were not opened...
Leavings. Mr. Coolidge left stacks of photographs autographed for memento-beggers (he signed 256 at one sitting); 553 handshakes on his last day in office; two last button-pressings (one was supposed to wreck with a blast of dynamite the last standing vestige of old Fort Sackville at Vincennes, Ind. The blast was a dud, so the building had to be burnt. The other button-push opened a new bridge across San Francisco Bay); a signed bill appropriating $48,000 for a presidential weekend retreat;* his achievements, chief of which he mentioned to newsgatherers as follows: 1) "Minding own business...