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...multitude of sins. If you have never seem him shaved and in the conventional after 6 o'clock dinner jacket it would be almost worth the chance to look. Then there is a hero who first gained fame because of a powerful jaw which looks well under a sombrero. He is the young lawyer striving to prevent injustice, and is homely enough to satisfy the male element in the audience...
...withdrew its support. Eaton, "The Hero of Derne," his fame on every tongue but his hour over, returned to the U. S. At first, millions listened to his story. It became gradually harder to find friendly souls; Hero Eaton found most of them among tipplers. In a big sombrero and Turkish sash, he drank himself to death in the taverns of Richmond...
...four years ago. Whenever the President paused, his last words were echoed from the Senate and House wings on both sides. Possibly it was irritation from this echo that caused Senator Cole Blease, newly elected from South Carolina, to walk down the stairs from the stand in his black sombrero and disappear before the President had finished. Halfway through, the President donned his glasses, but there were no other interruptions, save for applause, until the conclusion...
...retaliated for the program of "simplicity" and "economy" by breaking precedent to the extent of keeping open on Inauguration Day Colonel Coolidge has decided that there are enough bibles in Washington to make it unnecessary to bring one from Vermont, Governor Pinchot will ride in the procession with a sombrero from Texas, Governor Nellie Ross will be received with all due acclamation, as the first lady governor, and the President has deviated from his program of economy to the extent of having his reviewing stand glassed in. Such are the news reports from the nation's capital relative...
...from Commander-in-Chief of the Texas army to President of the Republic of Texas. After Texas was admitted to the Union, in 1845, he was sent to Washington as Senator. There he went, moving once more, but going with his tiger- skin vest, his shoulder blanket and his sombrero. He would sit in the Senate all day whittling sticks, occasionally rising to deliver an oration. In his bedroom at the hotel, he hung signs saying, "My bedtime is nine o'clock...