The Washington Post, October 14th, 1999
It was typical of newspapers in the 1920s, including The Post, to make stories as melodramatic as possible. Not even George Washington was immune to the treatment. Also, below the picture, an early skirmish about a girl's right to wear pants. An excerpt from The Post of Oct. 14, 1926: George Washington as a young man who was unlucky at cards, love, war and politics is the figure pictured by Rupert Hughes in "George Washington, the Human Being and the Hero," a new biography out today. "The father of his country was a swell from the sixteenth year on," says Hughes. "He rode to hounds, learned to...
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