rs. Edith Bolling Galt, who soon is to be Mrs. |
|Wilson, was present with her winsome smile and her |
|white furs and her lavender orchids--fortunately, |
|you could see her even through the haze--by the |
|President's side. |
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|And then there were some forty thousand others, |
|whose ranks in life ranged down from cabinet |
|officers and generals and admirals to ordinary |
|civilians, who dug as deep--some of them--as $20 a |
|seat for the privilege. |
| |
|Yet, do you suppose that President Wilson or any |
|official was the hero of the day? |
| |
|We are as loyal a Democrat as anybody else, but NO. |
| |
|Or do you fancy that the former belle of Wytheville,|
|Va., who is within the month to be the First Lady of|
|the Land, was the person toward whom all eyes were |
|directed during most of the afternoon? |
| |
|There were considerable numbers of field glasses |
|focused upon the white furs and the lavender |
|orchids and winsome smile. But again the reply |
|is emphatically NO. |
| |
|The leading character, the person who ought to |
|figure away up in the top of the headlines, the one |
|whose name was spoken more frequently than any |
|other, was a rough, rugged, short, stocky, right |
|half-back named Elmer Oliphant, who, according to |
|Army statistics, is twenty-two years old, stands 5 |
|feet 7 inches in altitude, weighs 163 pounds, and |
|hails from Indiana. |
| |
|Ollie was the boy. Before the first period of the |
|game was more than half over, there was a fumble by |
|a Navy back and an Army man fell upon the ball only |
|eight yards away from the goal line of the |
|midshipmen. |
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