Growing up with the 1945 blue book of Etiquette, I thought I would find this book interesting but I just never became personally involved. I think the writing at times was laborious to read. How often do you need to write sentences that require semi-colons? Lots to read with little emotion. T...
In 1916 he joined the National Guard, where he was stationed in a cavalry unit. As an elderly man, he would enjoy chiming in when war stories were being bandied about: “I was wounded in the battle of Fifth Avenue,” he would explain. “The occasion? The Victory March, and I fell off my horse, in fr...