Word: wintered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tremendous-long formal receptions; bi-weekly informal receptions (instituted by Mrs. Coolidge); luncheons with the Ladies of the Senate (a carry-over from Second Lady days); posing for photographs; laying cornerstones, visiting hospitals, remembering to send flowers, answering mail. Mrs. Coolidge's mother was sick all last winter, too (and is still abed). The journeys from Washington to Northampton, Mass., were wearing. When she reached Brule in June, Mrs. Coolidge was in a run-down state for which three months of fresh air and rest were a not superfluous dose of tonic...
What the Parents Coolidge would do after this winter seemed contingent in some degree on how John's work works out. But whether or not it goes well and whether or not there is a White House wedding before March, the Coolidge family seemed to have been reduced pretty permanently to two. What Washington wondered was: where will they go, now that he has but to beckon for a lordly income, now that she has grown accustomed to spaciousness? Architects were anxious. Before the White House, the Coolidges were content to live in hotels. Before that...
...announced last winter that it would raise and spend $2,000,000 in this autumn's elections. Last week the A. A. P. A. announced that it was writing to its 200,000 enrolment and asking $10 from each person. It promised to send the money "straight to the firing line" to help elect anti-Prohibition or modificationist Congressmen. Also, to make sure which men it wanted to support and which to fight, the A. A. P. A. sent questionnaires to all Congressional candidates...
...Kellogg had several items to declare. Most noteworthy were Irish winter underwear, Irish lace, Irish steamer rugs, a few Paris gowns, lingerie, perfume. Mr. Kellogg had less to declare but there was, of course, that gold pen which he received at Havre...
...another thing, Wilhelm of Doorn learned, last week, that Emil Ludwig's savage best-seller Wilhelm Hohenzollern, The Last of the Kaisers (TIME, March 21, 1927) is being dramatized for simultaneous production in Manhattan and Berlin this winter. Last winter Berlin courts sustained a suit for injunction against Communist Producer Edwin Piscator (TIME, Dec. 26), which was brought by Wilhelm of Doorn to compel censorship of a stage "Kaiser" from whose mouth came drooling and silly words, punctuated by posturings...