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...Call Me Madam...
...Holy Man Brahmachari will get out from behind his beard long enough to read Charles Pettit's Elegant Infidelities of Madam Li Pet Fou (Horace Liveright; 1928), he will find the tale about fanning a deceased husband's grave told in a much more elegant fashion...
...well-advanced that the decorators are due this week to install draperies and carpets. Truman recalled a legend that the Civil War President still walks the Lincoln Room. Once, when two school friends of the baby (Margaret Truman) were sleeping there, he said, he suggested to the madam (Bess Truman) that he might arrange for the ghost to really appear. (He didn't say how.) Bess thought it would scare the girls to death, and vetoed the idea...
...another occasion, the tub in his old bathroom began to sink through the floor when he was in it. He asked the madam what she would have thought if he had fallen into the Red Room when she was having one of her receptions for the ladies of the D.A.R. She didn't think it was funny, and wanted to slap his face...
...Full Nether Lip. Nelly was born, said the journals of the age, in a Covent Garden bawdyhouse, of a father unknown and a mother notorious as "old Madam Gwyn," a brandy-soak "that in one day could twenty quarts consume, / And bravely vaunt she durst it twice presume." (One day she durst, and the next she was fished out of a Chelsea brook; Nelly, rich and famous by then, gave her one of the flashiest funerals of the Restoration...