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While the debt discussion was in progress Mrs. Coolidge watered the flowers about the house with an ordinary galvanized iron bucket. Later, while the President drove down and dined at Echo Lake with the senator and the secretary, she stayed at home, supped with Colonel John...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Mr. Coolidge's Week: Aug. 31, 1925 | 8/31/1925 | See Source »

...During the visit of his son and daughter-in-law to Plymouth, Colonel Coolidge left them for several hours while he attended a directors' meeting (Ludlow Trust Co.) in nearby Ludlow.. F. H. Robinson, Presidential chauffeur, drove him there and back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Mr. Coolidge's Week: Aug. 31, 1925 | 8/31/1925 | See Source »

President de'Alvear and the Cabinet met him. They drove up the Calle Florida in a state carriage to Government House with every loophole and cranny crammed with huzzahing populace, with every now and then the raucous voice of some exiled Britisher rising above the general din, augmented by the racket of airplanes overhead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: A Wow | 8/31/1925 | See Source »

Lady Diana Manners drove up at the wheel of a dusty limousine piled with innumerable trunks. She had started from Munich at 5 in the morning to arrive in time to rehearse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Salzburg | 8/24/1925 | See Source »

...subjects went about their business as usual. In the evening they were sent to the theatre, after which their blood-pressure was examined. On the afternoon of the second day they went to the country and watched a youngsters' ball game. Then a blood test was taken. Some drove dummy automobiles. Professors sat beside them, observed how they did it. Little circles now began to appear under the eyes of the robust specimens. For in the course of these experiments they had never once gone to sleep. That was the experiment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sleepless | 8/24/1925 | See Source »

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