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...Last week, with the Republicans in the majority, and with the top hat, the starched shirt and the powdered bosom fashionable again, Washington was the most glittering of world capitals. Its parties were not only lavish, but in many cases prodigiously decorous and restrained. The average Washingtonian invariably hopes that others will think he is discussing some new and ponderous fact of foreign policy; he eternally strives for a concerned and thoughtful expression...
...many a problem, the fine line of just where the President leaves off and Hopkins takes up is a matter privy to them alone, and public knowledge of it must await their memoirs, which Hopkins?being the kind of man he is?will probably never write. Said one eminent Washingtonian who has often worked with Hopkins : "The people who dislike Hopkins are the people who like order...
...civic-minded Washingtonian is doomed by circumstance to be a thwarted, unhappy man. By geography he is disfranchised-he has no voice in managing his 69,245 square miles of handsomely landscaped bedlam. He is plagued by starlings, 10? streetcar fares, a water system that floods basements even after a drizzle, a street-cleaning system that depends mainly on the wind, a police force loaded with the castoffs of Congressional patronage-and some of the worst slums...
...Washingtonian's affairs are run for him by three Presidentially-appointed Commissioners, usually utterly without administrative experience. Congress grudgingly appropriates a mere $6 million a year for the city's upkeep, and in return reserves the right to park in front of fireplugs. The abused, voteless resident cannot even dilute his wormwood with a weekend binge. Bars close promptly at midnight Saturday, and remain shut over Sunday...
...past ten years she has been training horses on her own. Washingtonian T. T. Mott, whose string she now handles, refuses to buy a racer without her O.K. Last summer Horse Owner James V. Stewart urged Mr. Mott to buy a hand some young jumper. Judy demanded a trial run around the local Laurel course. She mounted, skimmed around the course until the last fence, where the horse crashed to the turf, head first. When an ambulance reached her, Judy was uncon scious. Coming to, she muttered: "Mr. Stewart, we don't want to buy your horse...