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...only Negro who ever acted as Governor of Louisiana. His father, Pinckney Benton Stewart, as President of the State Senate and Lieutenant Governor, ruled Louisiana for two months (December 1872 through January 1873) during the impeachment trial of Governor Henry Clay Warmoth. It was at the time of the carpet-bagger-scalawag régime, when President Grant was maintaining a Republican state government in power by force of arms. Histories call Pinchback a good man or a scoundrel, depending on which side of the Mason-Dixon line they were written. Two years ago the elder Pinchback died...
...carriage entered the courtyard of the Palace, the Garde Repub-licaine presented arms, bugles sounded, and as the carriage came to a stop, there was a scurry of gorgeously uniformed officials, a flash of red carpet, bows, salutes, handshakes...
...flash of red carpet, bows, salutes, handshakes...
...Inch Tee. The notable feature of the British mixed foursome tournament was a nine-inch tee employed by one M. D. Auckland. Though the dizzy elevation enabled him to develop prodigious distance on the drive, Mr. Auckland's fairway shots were fallible. The firmest lie on the finest carpet looked to him like a niblick shot...
...only real amour that dramatic exigencies permit him is one with Henrietta. The 300 others are sufficiently indicated in the delightful ballet-prologue. But space is left for the repentance of his dotage when, 20 years later, soothed by the sight of his illegitimate daughter, he dies kissing the carpet she has just walked over. A couple of kitchen maids spurn his defunct form with the epitaph, " Poor...