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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Add this copy of The War-Whirl in Washington, to cart. $27.83, fair condition, Sold by Wonder Book - Member ABAA/ILAB rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Frederick, MD, UNITED STATES.
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Edition:
1918, The Century Co.
Hardcover
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Publisher:
The Century Co.
Published:
1918
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
9462397101
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Very slightly shelf-slanted; a nice copy. 298 pp. With Illustrations by Tony Sarg. 8vo,
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Tony Sarg. 298p. A decorated tan cloth hardcover book in good condition. Spine tanned and cloth soiled. Small worn-through brown spot on spine edge. Light foxing in the vicinity of the plates; otherwise, text clean and binding secure. A satiricalportrait of the U.S. government and of Washington culture during World War I. Illustrated by humorist Tony Sarg.
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Very Good. First edition. Illustrated by Tony Sarg. Pictorial cloth attributed to Decorative Designers. Owner's stamp, light foxing on preliminary pages, front hinge cracked, spine and edges a little age-toned, very good lacking the dustwrapper. Political satire.
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Very Good. First edition. Illustrated by Tony Sarg. Pictorial cloth. A little offsetting to a couple of preliminary pages from clippings, spine a little soiled, else a nice, very good copy. Warmly and humorously illustrated by O'Malley. Political satire.
