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...Portico of Zeus haunted by Socrates, the Temple of the Mother of the Gods where the city records were kept and in the courtyard of which Diogenes lived in a tub, a Temple of Apollo, a main thorough fare 30 feet wide leading to the Acropolis...
...night was warm for November, still and starless; on a flagpole above the portico the blue Presidential flag, with its shield, eagle and white stars, flapped listlessly. Hyde Park House was dark, the big green shutters swung snug to the front windows-from outside, not a crack of light showed from the library. Inside and out, the atmosphere was solemn, expectant, tense...
After two days of listening to speeches on practical politics, surveying Congress, plodding on sight-seeing tours, meeting Congressmen, romping over the District of Columbia, the delegates descended on the White House. Not in the East Room, but from the South Portico, President Roosevelt delivered his informal chat, while his audience filled the White House lawn. Said the President: "I am confident that your common sense, your enthusiasm and your deep understanding of the problems of the day will go far to keep the American people on the right road in this Year of Grace 1940. Now come...
...intention of resigning. Cornell Franklin hails from Mississippi, home State of Author William Faulkner (who is married to Cornell Franklin's first wife). A good sport and a fighting gentleman, Cornell Franklin has transplanted the South-mint juleps, hunting dogs, polo, a white house with a proper portico-right to cosmopolitan Shanghai. He and his pretty second wife are tired of all this warrin' and ready for a little Reconstruction...
After they had stood in the rain an hour, the youths' spirits were somewhat damped. Finally the President stepped out on the South Portico. He began talking. He tried to be light. No one laughed. He made some political remarks. No one clapped. He was fatherly-told the children to be sure to change into dry clothes when they got home. Not a murmur. Then he lit into them...