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...kills a fly; in A Cup of Tea, Rosemary Fell, young, wealthy, plays lady bountiful to a starving girl and takes her home for tea. Her husband comments casually that the girl is really astonishingly pretty and Rosemary gives her money and sends her away at once...
Another courtesy which may be offered Mrs. Harding is the medical advice of Dr. Sawyer, White House physician under her husband. President Coolidge has reappointed General Sawyer as White House physician (which will keep him in Washington) and it is now expected that Mrs. Harding will make her permanent home there. A similar courtesy was performed by President Harding for former President Wilson, when he gave Admiral Grayson, Mr. Wilson's White House physician, an appointment in Washington so that he might continue to attend the former President...
...husband was getting tired of his wife, and a mutual friend, discussing the lady and remembering that marriages are made in Heaven, declared...
...time there was peace there, for the devastation and revolution cost Ireland about 40,000,000 pounds sterling." It became known, paradoxically enough, that the whereabouts of Eamon de Valera were unknown. The discovery was made by the anxious Mrs. Eamon de Valera, who went to visit her husband at Mount Joy prison, Dublin. Her husband's presence there was denied. Later she sent a wire to the Adjutant General : " Please inform me of the whereabouts of my husband." She received no reply. The first anniversary of the death of Michael Collins,* First Commander-in-chief of the Free...
...Woodrow Wilson: "I paid a personal call upon Mrs. Calvin Coolidge. The press stated that this visit was the first I have made to the White House since I presided over its functions. As a matter of fact, when Mrs. Harding was ill last Fall my husband and I drove to the White House, made inquiries for her, left our cards...