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...their beards to grow long and bushy, for President Coolidge was coming to town. They wanted him to see Deadwood as it looked in the days of the gold rush, following 1876, when "Wild Bill" Hickock, "Deadwood Dick" and "Calamity Jane" were kicking up dust in its streets. A pageant was staged for President Coolidge, who gladly shook the wrinkled hand of aged "Deadwood Dick...
...Custer, S. Dak., went the President and Mrs. Coolidge, saw there a pageant representing scenes in Black Hills history from the time when the Great Spirit set aside the region as a place of particular beauty and sanctity. The most spectacular part of the spectacle was not on the program, but came when two horses scheduled to stage a runaway from a covered wagon attacked by Indians ran in earnest and evaded cowboys posted to round them up. Toward the packed crowd surrounding the field galloped the horses. Mrs. Coolidge covered her face with her hands...
...only decent way out seems to be to try to make the public view of your private affairs an accurate one. You examine your real feelings and come right out with them. Mrs. Stillman, while supervising the transformation of the colonial mansion into a "sylvan bower" for a pageant to include kilted bagpipers, ushers in lumbering shirts, and wines by the truckload, talked with frankness and concentration to the reporters. She discussed the Indian blood in Lena Wilson. "What of it?" she said. "There are good Indians. Bearing in one's veins a strain of the blood of the natives...
Lucky Men. The pageant began when Their Majesties arrived at Victoria Station, London, to await M. le Président. Round about stood, like seeming giants, the Foot Guards in their enormous, tall, bearskin hats. On prancing coal black horses sat stiffly the Horse Guards, clad in white buckskin breeches and silver-plated body armor. Across the Royal Waiting Room and down the platform was spread a great crimson carpet...
...youth and boxed in his age. He exercised always, took tennis seriously and played it creditably. He preferred preparedness to pacificism; moderation to Prohibition; the odors of his laboratory to the per fume of bathing beauties ? he took the role of Father Neptune at the Atlantic City pageant only once...