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...Washington's famed Japanese cherry trees burst into bloom days ahead of time as the President welcomed his son to No. 15 Dupont Circle. President Coolidge's son John was home from Amherst for a ten-day spring vacation. ¶ At noon, one day last week, at the executive offices at the White House, the President formally received the members of the musical clubs of his alma mater, Amherst. At teatime, Mrs. Coolidge and son John received them informally at No. 15 Dupont Circle; in the evening, applauded them generously from a box in Continental Hall. President Coolidge...
When the Chinese Revolution burst (1911) he, a stripling of 23, was given command of a brigade by the Revolutionary party at Shanghai, and for two years he took advantage of his new position to live a life of drinking, gaming and debauch. Suddenly he abandoned these practices, and when his friends assembled to remonstrate, he cried: "I have given up this kind of life to give my real services to my country. You call yourselves my friends. Friends! Bah! Thank the gods, I shall not have to call you friends any more. You, who are supposed to be working...
...plate rich-boy, husband of Princess Xenia of Greece: "Milk squirted, glass flew high and wide as my automobile crashed into a milk wagon at Flushing, N.Y., en route from Manhattan to Spratbrae, my Oyster Bay, L. I., home. The hit horse lay on the boulevard, dead. My automobile burst into flames. I leaped out with a shout: 'Never mind about the fire in the car; let's get this man to the hospital. We can buy 20 cars, but we can't buy another Joe [my chauffeur].' . . . Joe and the two in the milk wagon...
...downpour of especial violence preceded the parade to the post. Then the King, standing in the Earl of Derby's box, the Prince, ensconced at the Valentine's Brook jump, the cheered host, others of high and low degree saw the sun burst through the clouds, do its belated best. Thirty-seven horses started the agonizing 4½-mile chase. Over stone fence, green hedge, wide ditch and stream, they charged. One by one, sweating, steaming animals with bloodshot eyes found themselves wanting; fell, pitching heartbroken men onto tough shoulderblades. Only seven horses came to the last hurdle...
...husband's empire shattered, she sat last week with clear eyes incapable at last of further tears, as the hymns and songs that had meant life and glory welled again. The Cossacks, Tsarist officers and emigres wore the uniform of her own onetime Imperial Life Guards. "Matoushka Tsaritza!" burst out the Cossack leader, Boris Grabowski, at last. "Dear Little Mother-Empress! God and Holy Russia bless you! Oh, never shall we forget this...