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...night and strike matches to get a better view of the house and gardens, the pool and the tennis court. I used to have to get up at 3:45 every morning to go through all my mail. I had dozens of begging letters. An unfortunate old maid wondered whether I would pay her $50 a month out of the vast sum [$40,000] Mr. Coolidge was to pay me. I even received 18 proposals. There might have been more, but a newspaper published an awful picture of me and the proposals ceased...
...beautiful chair upholstered in brocaded silk. An arm had been chipped from a bit of statuary Mme Clore had brought from Italy. A moustache had been pencilled on the lip of her late husband's oil portrait. Seven glasses were broken. Three spoons were missing. The second maid had been seduced. The cook had quit. "The press had been entertained...
...humorless, cranky old maid was Emily Dickinson. Hers was feminine intelligence at its keenest, and many a masculine ponderosity drew her inner smile. Said she: "I believe the love of God may be taught not to seem like bears." Unable to discover the Devil, she concluded: "He must be making war on some other nation." Her definition of poetry is famed among present-day poets: "If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire ever can warm me I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head...
...Santa Barbara (Calif.) hotel a maid threw a bundle of Mrs. John McGill's dirty linen down a laundry chute to the basement four stories below. The bundle contained Mrs. McGill's infant, eight months old, who was unharmed...
...gather outside the tall iron fence not long after dawn. About 8 a. m. a rumor escaped mysteriously from the Palace that the Sovereign had risen from his Royal and Imperial bed. Half an hour later he and Queen Mary were said, on the high authority of a scullery maid, to be eating savory kippers. About 9 a. m. the patient, patriotic crowd learned that "the King is examining congratulatory telegrams and cablegrams from all over the world"?this from an important, reliable equerry. Denser and denser grew the crowd, but with no ill-mannered clamor for Their Majesties...