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...hand the President held a wooden spoon; in the other a plate of ice cream. He and Mrs. Coolidge were giving their annual garden party for disabled veterans; received nearly 1,000 of them on the South Lawn of the White House grounds. Secretary of State and Mrs. Frank B. Kellogg, Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, et al, attended...
...artistic sensibilities of Joseph Esposito, 14-year-old Italian of the Dore Elementary School in Chicago, were upset in his classroom by a chromo of George Washington. So he saved $85 by selling ice cream, privately commissioned an artist to copy the Stuart portrait of Washington which he had seen in the Chicago Art Institute. Last week he presented the oil painting to his school. He is behind in his studies, but he has given boards of education, throughout the land, something on which to ponder...
Charles Siringo, born in the County of Matagorda, Tex., in 1855, was a cowboy from seven on.* For 40 years he roamed about the West, either shooting at bandits with a large revolver or selling ice cream and cigars in his shop. He helped chase Billy the Kid, whose bloodthirst was of an extraordinary coolness. As a detective he functioned for several years at taming the Wild West. Now he functions at pumping Wild West atmosphere into the eager balloon of his reminiscences. The verses above, quoted reminiscently, describe an oldtime bandit. Also they describe the spirit of Author Siringo...
...Glenn Frank (University of Wisconsin president), Daniel Willard (Baltimore & Ohio R. R. president), James Branch Cabell (author of Jurgen, The Cream of the Jest, etc.), Capt. William H. Stay ton (Association Against the Prohibition Amendment founder and president), Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis (U. S. Supreme Court) and Dr. James McKeen Cattell (Editor of Science) were bracketed and equally recommended, as "six highly intelligent and industrious men . . . gentlemen," by Editor Henry Louis Mencken of the American Mercury, for President...
...here was my little friend lost in his ice cream and the sight of the revolving fairies, happy, not thinking of sorrow and misfortune and the really important things of life. How he got home and why I shall be glad to include in my next thesis, "Middle Broken English and Who Broke It or the Graduate Students Dream...