This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter vi the eagle chirps oste might have known that the taxibandit at the tiller was one of those Philadelphia brigands who had just driven his car 'cross-country from Broad and Chestnut streets the day before in order to be in on the Washington wartime pickin's, and therefore had n't the slightest ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter vi the eagle chirps oste might have known that the taxibandit at the tiller was one of those Philadelphia brigands who had just driven his car 'cross-country from Broad and Chestnut streets the day before in order to be in on the Washington wartime pickin's, and therefore had n't the slightest notion where Congress convened. He was all that, also he was of a nature too sensitive, seemingly, to ask for directions; and so he lit right out and slambanged down the Fourteenth Street incline to " the avenue," crossed the town's great aorta instead of turning east into it, and never slowed up until he had zipped eastward for half a dozen blocks along B Street, S. W. There he stopped in front of a big brick building that stretched the length of an ocean-liner of the first class. Now I, even I, knew that Congress had always These are the happy days for the City of Gossip done its nation-saving in a spreading Capitol of marble and much sandstone painted white. Still, what with all the rest of the fast shiftings about and fancy-footed shadow-boxing that now make every day in Washington moving-day, perhaps the House and the Senate had called a couple of moving-vans also, and had staked a new claim within the hollows of the big brick edifice that Jesse James had taken us to. Then came to mind then and there the authentic case where one governmental bureau within the previous six months had moved all its office forces and furniture exactly six times, the directors of that and similar bureaus, far-seeing though they were, having moved each time into offices four feet wider because no one had been decent enough to tell them that the war might continue throughout the entire week to come, and therefore cause a progressive expanding of business up...
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