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Tanned Man. First thing Franklin Roosevelt did last week when he got back to Washington from his yachting holiday off Florida was to peep under Louis Howe's oxygen tent and say hello to his ailing No. 1 Secretary. Second thing was to summon to the White House Speaker Joseph Wellington Byrns and Chairman Robert Lee Doughton of the Ways & Means Committee to confer about getting the Social Security Bill passed by the House...
...combination of unhappy circumstances has caused Ruggles to be regarded not as a servant but as an aristocratic British colonel. "When people think you are a personage, you become a personage" is the alarming thought that has consequently dawned on Ruggles. He is trying to summon up the courage to deny the habit of a lifetime to the extent of leaving service and opening a restaurant of his own. When he recites the Gettysburg Address, he does so from his heart and the full solemnity of its 266 words is in the bashful quaver of his voice. That this fable...
When Giulio Gatti-Casazza returns to Manhattan from his summers in Italy, the long-established routine has been for him to summon musical reporters and inform them of the singers he has engaged, the operas he intends to produce the coming season. The picture in his dark, musty office has always been the same: Gatti settling his great bulk in a swivel chair, fumbling for the ribbon which holds his pince-nez, reading his announcement aloud in slow, painstaking English. When questions were asked, he would stroke his beard, answer warily or not at all. A grave "good afternoon" regularly...
...over to see your fair with a party of six." Minute later the Secretary of War and party rolled up in front of the Administration Building in a taxi. An out-of-breath reception committee greeted them, perspired with embarrassment, apologized that there had been no time to summon soldiers for a 19-gun salute. Over to the Army tent-camp strolled the Secretary of War, stood at attention while a squad fired A Century of Progress's first tardy salute. Followed by three private bodyguards, Mrs. Evelyn Walsh McLean went to a night club in A Century...
...slogan originated with a raw bus boy who, when Janssen asked him to summon the head waiter, shouted "Janssen wants to see you." To remind himself to reprimand the boy Janssen jotted the phrase in his notebook. Its catchiness appealed to him and he repeated it on 50 postcards, mailed them to his friends. Next night, he swears, all 50 appeared at his Hofbrau...