Sharp diary 1918 page 17. Monday 14 January 1918 - Chicago
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Monday 14th of January 1918
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Weather still fine though the weather bureau predicts another blizzard for to night or tomorrow! Maud goes out — while I begin harmonizing Cruel Mother — to get brown paper and string, both of which she finally runs to earth at a hardware store! Then between us with many fumblings we do up my MSS and sally forth to the post office to send it off registered to Gray. A great relief to see it off and done with! Then we walk round to the Baskervill’s and have a talk inviting them to dine with us Wednesday evening. Back to lunch and rest and then write long letter to Mrs Storrows in reply to hers about Amherst and Scout camp. Tolman calls for me and takes me down to Literary Club. A gorgeous room well stocked with books and wearing generally a carefully arranged literary appearance. A Mr Kennedy reads a paper on Varieties of Peace — not badly put together with paste and scissors — doing some wonderful feats in the way of pronunciation of our poor language. He talked of entirety (to rhyme with plenty) for [….?]. Puerile he pronounced pueral ( to rhyme with plural) Junkers he pronounced phonetically and made a wonderful hash of foreign place names and names of statesmen. A short & modest supper afterwards. I sat next to the President and had a nice chat with him. Came home about 11 with several club men including Dr. Jenny.Location
USA : Illinois : Chicago [41.8781136,-87.6297982]
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