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...House office lavatories from 175 to 88; orders that all lights be turned out promptly when not needed; repeated use of manila envelopes for documents to be carried from one department to another; rationing, by weight, of food in the White House kitchen; replacement of a torn White House flag by a new one, with the understanding that the torn one be mended and used elsewhere. When the President turned in a dull eraser, the stockroom returned it with the comment that no new ones had been provided...
...Angeles carried both Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Douglas Robinson and Rear Admiral William A. Moffett, Chief of the Bureau of Naval Aeronautics. The Secretary flew his blue and white flag and received all honors and ceremony customary on a dignified battleship...
Like all good facts, statistical or otherwise, it may be bent to prove almost anything and one may find in it, as in the Bible, whatever one looks for. The bad boy from Baltimore, Mr. Mencken, will no doubt declare it proof incontrovertible of hopeless literary flabbiness, and the flag-waving Mr. Sherman will somehow find in it another splendid victory for "the American spirit". But who can imagine Messrs. Sherman and Mencken on any common ground...
While the enemy's flag flutters gally...
...tawny sand that gaped at the right of the green. If this shot were perfect, if every shot he made that afternoon were incredibly good, he might be almost even with Hagen before defeat stopped him. His ball rose in air, pointed itself straight for the flag -and then curved insanely aside, buried itself in the yawning bunker. Walker wallowed after. He asked that a niblick be thrown down to him; those above could hear his mutterings as he beat the ground at intervals with this heavy instrument. One, two, three, four thuds and, at last, a ball came from...