In a way one of them was one of my boys, and I was glad to see him get what he wanted, though he aspired to nothing so high.

He was indeed all sorts of a boy, and his elevation to such a post was so grotesque that the nomination, like that of his mate, was rejected by the Senate.

I gave the President a serio-comic but kindly account, at which he laughed heartily, and ended by my asking how he had chanced to make two such appointments.
"Hewitt came over here," he answered, "and then Dorsheimer.

The father is the only Democrat we have in that great corporation.

As to the other, he struck me as a likely fellow.