Quote: [Remark on death of Calvin Coolidge] How can they tell? (antedating Dorothy Parker 1936)

[George Thompson]

Since we are into a Coolidgeana bag:

There's the story of the summary he gave his wife of a sermon at church, on a Sunday when she was housebound:

He: He preached a sermon on sin.
She: What did he say.
He: He was against it.

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George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.

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