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...ever enter the White House, it would round off a unique legend. In Kansas, they used to call "Charlie" Curtis names like "The Injun," "the Noble Red Man of the Forest" and "Lo!" His maternal grandmother, Julie Pappan, was an Indian squaw, a Kaw princess, daughter of Chief White Plume of the Kaws and granddaughter of potent Chief Pawhuskie of the Osages...
...compound sentences, derived from long professional practice, are rolled with an unctuous grandeur by George Hassell, who plays him to the last shake of his ponderous belly. You have the feeling that Thompson's lowly feathers are plucked from the same bird that gave Cyrano his white plume and that they are not much less pathetic for being so much more absurd. The audience wished only for something to happen to this charming old rogue to spur him out of what promised in the first two acts to be a bog of dialog. Baby Cyclone. Playwright George M. Cohan...
...George Wolf, Manhattan architect, had good reason to be vexed at himself after permitting F. K. Douglas and Walter Bryant, shifty blackamoors, to hornswoggle him in this manner. Last week Detective Finn had good reason to plume himself after detecting that the garbage-leggers were F. K. Douglas and Walter Bryant...
...Curtis. (Senator Charles Curtis of Kansas. His great grandmother was the daughter of White Plume, chief of the Kaw tribe...
Rare is the day that brings no new plume to John Harvard's hat. A new ambassador, a handful of Senators, a tribute from Guam, something to enhance the glory of Cambridge is an inevitable feature of the day's news. The current number of the Saturday Evening Post, however, in an advertisement of clothing made by Hart, Schaffner and Marx, delivers a direct blow to the fair name of Harvard in a criticism which demands immediate and thorough reform...