Word: augusta
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...secret chronicler about the White House. Shrewd enough to know the advantage of his confidential position and with a sharp eye on posterity, he wrote (sometimes from quotations jotted down on his immaculate cuffs) almost daily letters to "Dear Clara," his sister-in-law, Mrs. Lewis F. Butt of Augusta, Ga. In these, he gave a continuous account of private life in the White House. Six years ago was published the first series of the Butt letters covering the last year of the Roosevelt Administration. The death of Chief Justice Taft opened the way for the publication last week...
Archie Butt was born in Augusta in 1865 of good but impoverished family. By working as librarian at the University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn., his mother managed to give him an education at that institution. After the Spanish War he secured a captain's commission in the Army Quartermaster Corps, distinguished himself only by transporting 557 horses and mules from Portland, Ore. to Manila without the loss of an animal. He was recalled from Cuba by President Roosevelt in 1908 to begin his White House service. A bachelor with gayety, tact, discretion, he gave himself up entirely...
...with the most beautiful, but he had such a genius for putting his foot in it and re fusing to realize it that he only made her dislike him. When she refused him he immediately proposed to the next-best-looking, who gently handed him on to the plain Augusta. In pity for Augusta, who adored him, he married her. Their marriage turned out strangely well, though Zeno loved his wife most when he was with his mistress. When he went into business with his brother-in-law they lost half their capital the first year. But Zeno. who could...
...great lady of most compelling and imperial mien is the Archduchess Isabella. The Austro-Hungarian Court has fallen, vanished, but in Budapest she holds court. So for that matter does her neighbor the Archduchess Augusta. It is no secret that members of the Corps Diplomatique, including the U. S. Minister, attend these "courts," bow with deepest consideration to their archducal hostess, and, approaching the large, thronelike-chair on which the Archduchess (either Isabella or Augusta) sits, kiss the back of her white-gloved right hand. The left hand is not gloved, a reminder that the sole purpose of the right...
...Augusta, Me., Harold D. Jennings, treasurer of Central Maine Power Co., president of the city aldermen, was fishing for smelt. A salmon ate his bait. He had no license to catch salmon, yelled to S. Sewell Webster, city clerk, nearby, to make him out a salmon-catching license, got it, hauled in his salmon...