National Affairs: Statue & Story
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Robust, cynical, hardboiled, Boss Penrose lived the 61 years of his life as a bachelor. Once when urged to wed for political reasons, he retorted he would marry any woman the Pennsylvania G. O. P. picked out for him. On Dec. 31, 1921, a wasted hulk of a big man, he lay abed at Washington's Wardman Park Hotel while downstairs New Year's Eve revelry split the air. Gradually the din of dancing grew fainter and fainter in his tired ears. When the clock hands met at midnight he was dead and Pennsylvania had lost its last great political boss.*
*Later Fictioneer Mary Roberts Rinehart, living in the Penrose suite, used to thrill her guests with yarns of how the Senator's ghosts haunted the premises.
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