The Nation's Capital
Takes Off

"Wartime Washington is as gay, they say, as the gay Paree of a quarter of a century ago. It is full of men in uniform, soldiers, sailors, marines, aviators - bucks, gobs, cadets, generals, admirals, and the Commander-in-Chief. With every officer walks a proud and pretty woman. With a sailor walk two girls - why, usually, two?"

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