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...Although Washington has many a sumptuous private residence, few of them are now on Massachusetts Avenue, where in the space of a few blocks stand 14 embassies and legations. Notable remaining Massachusetts Avenue mansions: the unused town house of Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, the four-story house of the President's fifth cousin Alice Longworth, the red-brick mansion of the famed Misses Patten, who once entertained the Prince of Wales, the King of Belgium...
...Army rations were not always so sumptuous. During the Revolution, a soldier was issued daily (if he got it) 1 Ib. of meat, 6 oz. of bread, 1 pt. of milk, rice, 1 qt. of spruce beer. He had to do his cooking himself. The War of 1812 added another item to the list: vinegar, which was mixed with sugar and water to make a highly regarded tonic. In the Civil War, Union soldiers got 20 oz. of beef, 22 oz. of bread,* 2½ oz. of beans, rice, green coffee, sugar, vinegar. Pepper was added to the menu...
Money, of which he had not much, obsessed him in the '30s. For Social Credit he became a fiery if incoherent apostle. "Usury" he attacked in sumptuous and contemptuous cantos. He fell for the Fasces that seemed to mean Order. In his crotchety isolation he desired an audience; his own country ignored him; Fascismo flattered him. His half-bantering egomania became huge. When World War II began, chafing at new difficulties of communication, he wrote: "Am inconvenienced by shutdown of London...
...Passed to higher authority: Pigeonholed in more sumptuous office...
...estimated 400 representatives of the Crimson and Big Green will stage their annual combined revel next Friday night at the eighteenth annual Harvard-Dartmouth ball, scheduled to be held again in the sumptuous and spacious Louis XIV ballroom of the Hotel Somerset...