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Premier Benito Mussolini went for a motor ride. Premier Mussolini, caught a cold. The cold proved to be influenza. The Premier went to bed. The Senate adjourned in consequence. Bulletins were issued: "The Premier has influenza." "The Premier's condition is improving." Finally: "The Premier is well and will be permitted to quit his bed in a few days." The Senate and Chamber of Deputies decided to reconvene...
Washington chuckled, the whole country grinned. The President had been caught taking an illicit horseback ride. He has a mechanical hobbyhorse in his dressing room-a horse with a tin body, on which is cinched an ordinary saddle. By pressing successive buttons, the horse can be made to trot, to canter, to gallop at various speeds-an electrical motor supplying the motion (which is entirely vertical). Three times a day, for ten minutes, he rides...
...vigorous debate on this amendment, Senator Howell of Nebraska protesting that if it were possible to reduce any railway revenues, the reduction should be on freight rates for farm products. To this, Senator Reed of Missouri replied that the surcharge reduction would benefit everyone: "The farmer doesn't ride on the cowcatcher. He rides in the Pullman, just the same as other people." (Returned to House...
...rumored that members of foreign legations have been instructed to lay aside admiral's hats for this occasion and wear stocking caps. Report goes that the President will appear in simple semi-formal dress of close-fitting black tights, safely suspended by white silk suspenders. He will ride in the procession seated comfortably on top of a have wagon with pitchfork in one hand and brown derby in the other. In short, everything is to be as simple as possible...
...airplanes carried a billion passengers a year (as do the American railroads), instead of a few thousand, I should read their records with greater interest; that is, if I contemplated taking a ride myself...