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...Blue Blood!"; Blue Blood!! Blue Blood!!! chugged the engines of the Presidential yacht. Captain Adolphus Andrews thrust an ordinary pin into the spot on his chart which marks Plymouth, Mass., instructed his helmsman to make for that pin with all speed...
...carry to the sixth green, or that oblique yawn in the eighth fairway that it took 450 tons of sand to fill? Had he often made a more perilous march than down the 601-yard twelfth, where they had smoothed the deep bunkers to dissemble innocence and the far pin retreated like a mirage...
There, in the nation's capital, a triumph was being prepared. King Haakon, who had followed Amundsen's vicissitudes with avidity, would send royal carriages to meet the heroes at the water. He would await them at the palace, ready to pin upon them the Royal Order of St. Olaf,* exhibit them to his subjects from a balcony, welcome them with the great of Norway at a state banquet. The day after, prominent officials would have their chance to make speeches recalling the Viking days, at ceremonies to be held in old Fortress Akershus. A male chorus numbering...
...Calvin Coolidge, honorary President of the Girl Scouts of America, donned a Scout uniform, motored to Rosslyn, Va., was presented by Miss Juliette Low with a tenderfoot** pin and in turn awarded six "letters of merit" to, Washington women for service to the movement, four merit badges to as many Scouts and a silver cup to Mrs. J. P. Hovey, captain of a troop which won an intertroop contest...
...tooth brush. An hospitable Freshman made a present of his door key. Others gave Sixteen Necco wafers and a bottle of soda mints. Among the remaining contributions were one cigar, one lump of sugar, one Boston garter, five beads, one cake of soap, one pipe, one safety pin, and large quantities of assorted fruit, most of which was far beyond its prime...