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...single custodian of a visual memory of the event I have in mind. It was on a winter day back in 1908. Late in the afternoon I crossed Pennsylvania Avenue at Twelfth Street. Not only was the air crisp, but a gusty wind was swirling a sudden downpour of snow. Up the avenue from the Capitol came a huge dray drawn by six white Percherons?an unusually large hitch even for those horse days. Reaching the sidewalk I turned to give a second glance and then burst into uproarious laughter. . . . Greenough's George Washington had appeared through the haze...
...dons petticoats, pretends to be a maid. Enter a fat old Baron who promptly sets to ogling and tweaking her (him). From then on the amorous Baron is never sure whether his path is being crossed by a lovely maid or a courtly rival. True love, young, starlit and sudden, comes to the stage when Octavian, clad in shining satin and bearing a silver rose, is sent to ask a rich young heiress to marry the Baron. Most operas end tragically but when Octavian and Sophie have finished their duet it is clear love will triumph...
...fashioned high-wheel bicycles accounted for the appearance in last week's news of George Washington in a striking state of undress. Noting a sudden public interest in the "bone-shakers" of the 1860s, United Pressman Frederick Othmann took up his hat and went over to Washington's Smithsonian Institution to research...
What happened was a sudden upward surge in both security and commodity prices that gathered momentum day by day. The Stock Exchange had not one but two 1,000,000-share days, and by the end of the week the Dow-Jones industrial stock averages had climbed to the highest level since last June...
While Roosevelt pleads for world peace and urges the nations to accept his plan for strict government licensing of arms manufacturing, the State Department announces to the parley at London its intention to build up the fleet to full treaty limits. This sudden pronouncement of policy calls attention to the uncritical attitude which the American people has adopted towards its naval building program...