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...White House musicales," Mrs. Roosevelt is partial to Americans, likes programs that interlard well-known artists with entertainers like Whistler Robert MacGimsey, Character Sketcher Mollie A. Best, Singing Satirist Vandy Cape. Encores are given only if Mrs. Roosevelt signals. Artists are asked not to brag much in the press about their White House dates...
Crosley hired white-haired, bespectacled "CannonBall" Baker to make a transcontinental run in its new diminutive Covered Wagon (123½ inches overall). His report: "2,454 miles at a cost of $9.14 makes automobile history." Prices: $299 to $450. Company brag: "50 miles on a gallon-EASY...
...369th was brigaded with the French who called its black men les enfants perdus (the lost children) because of their separation from the rest of the A. E. F. The regiment lost 1,100 men killed and wounded, won 172 individual French and American decorations, was able to brag that it had never lost a foot of ground to the enemy or surrendered a prisoner to him. By Armistice, it had spent more time in action (191 days) than any other U. S. outfit, and when it marched up Fifth Avenue in February 1919, the green-and-red ribbon...
Next day United Air Lines came out in metropolitan newspapers with an advertisement air lines had never dared to use before: a specific, unequivocal brag for safety. Thus was celebrated the end of the first year in the history of any form of U. S. transport which had passed without a single fatality to passenger or crew...
Take the description of Crockett when he "grated thunder with his teeth," or the woman who used to "brag that she war a streak of litenin set up edgeways and buttered with quicksilver," or the cold morning when "the airth had actually friz fast in her axis, and couldn't turn around; the sun had got jammed between two cakes of ice under the wheels, an' thar he had been shinin and working to get loose, till he friz fast in his cold sweat." This work is no mere potboiler...