The Mirrors of Washington

Fourteen unsparing portraits of the men who ran America in 1921 — Harding, Wilson, Hoover, Lodge — published anonymously, illustrated with Cesare's caricatures, and gossiped about in every capital drawing room.

Edward M. House

5 pages in this part of The Mirrors of Washington.

Edward M. House

THE nature of Colonel Edward M. House was fully revealed by a story of his youth, which he told me at Paris in the concluding moments of…

Edward M. House: Morton

There was a little more self-revelation. He and Morton had prepared for college with Yale in view. But Morton had flunked his entrance…

Edward M. House: Wilson

He was loyal at heart to Mr. Wilson and to everything that was Mr. Wilson's, his mind being absorbed into Mr. Wilson's, and having no…

Edward M. House: Orlando

He-- Liked what e're he looked on And his looks went everywhere. He had a kindly feeling for the "old man," Clemenceau. He was a warm…

Edward M. House: British

British entertainment of members of the House family had been marked and assiduous, and the flattery had had its effect, though not…

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