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Unimportant Downes and the Press Man in Washington
A satirical sketch follows Tommy Downes, a small unassuming Washington correspondent nicknamed Highly Unimportant for his bland reporting and perpetual half laugh. His career threads through Bonanza the Nevada senator, Miss Greenhough Bolingbroke, and a hospital bed ending in a final joke about life’s unimportance.
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Tommy
Wallsmall Snort
Mississippi
Isham Fishbone
Wisconsin
Calkhouse
Senate
Tommy Downes
John Quincy Adams
Congress
Minnie’ Downes
Downes
Telegraphic
Washington
Enoch Grimm
Bonanza
Nevada
Grimm
H. I. Downes
Nauwey
Arcana
Nestor
Virginia Springs
Miss Bolingbroke
Bolingbroke
Greenhough
Papa
Bonanza’s
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Greeney