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...Secretary of War's wife, pouring the tea, and Mrs. Attorney-General Mitchell conversing politely. Also present were a Mrs. Bacon, a Mrs. Kelly, a Mrs. Free, whose husbands are U. S. Representatives from New York, Pennsylvania and California, respectively, and many another lady of Washington's officialdom. The guest in the blue chiffon gown with moonlight hose and snakeskin slippers was glad to meet them all because she felt that she belonged among them. She was Mrs. Oscar De Priest, the wife of a new U. S. Representative from Illinois. Mrs. De Priest's husband...
...shoes, walked across the room, walked around the garden. His knee pains ceased at once. In a few days his swellings had disappeared. Later an official communique was issued that President von Hindenburg's convalescence was at an end. How the merciful cobbler was rewarded, officialdom neglected...
...sets of society exist in Washington-official and unofficial. Officialdom provides the actors. Unofficialdom provides the stages-mostly dining-room and drawing-room scenes-the choruses, the expert managers. The State Department is the prompter, furnishing cues for the actors' entrances and exits...
Near to apoplexy, last week, was Dr. Hugo Eckener. His Graf Zeppelin was about to sail from Friedrichshafen on a Mediterranean cruise with 28 passengers at $720 per head, when he learned that French officialdom had forbidden him to cross any part of France except at night, and except by way of the mountainous Swiss border. England had recently blocked his passing over Egypt. Cried the heckled aviator: "It is a heartbreaking struggle to achieve anything...
...soothingly was this passage dwelt upon by bland British undersecretaries that the New York Herald Tribune's responsive Harold E. Scarborough cabled: "America's reply to the Franco-British naval compromise delivered to the Foreign Office at noon today, was greeted with relief by British officialdom. . . . So confused had British public opinion become over the whole question of the compromise, that alarmist reports from the United States that Washington in the note would bang and bolt the door on further efforts at naval disarmament were more than half believed. . . . London agrees that this note is the most happily...