What is "old washington"

Usage examples of "old washington".

A bearded father and his son sat in a crowd, waving pennants for the old Washington Redskins.

Of all the old Washington ladies, Millicent was the one who most bored Clay but because of Elizabeth he went out of his way to charm her, not an easy task since he knew that she thought him responsible for Burden’.

They got on well, confounding the old Washington saw: there goes the Vice-President, with nothing on his mind but the President’.

My voice filled suddenly with catarrh as I deliberately mimicked old Washington Irving at his most gracious.

Frederika had old Washington's sense of unreality when it came to the Federal theater that changed its program every four or eight years -- sometimes sooner if a player happened to be, excitingly, assassinated.

The group in Truck 2 would divert to the south and capture the radar station at Fort McNair, which was adjacent to the old Washington Navy Yard.

He walked along Pennsylvania Avenue until he stood in front of a square building that consisted of several dark-glass stories grafted onto some old Washington houses.

I'm not at my best wounded and in the dark, with corpses at my feet, and not even a ray of hope visible - for I'd quite given up the notion of making myself known to old Washington: I doubted if he'd believe me, he never came within whispering distance anyway, and I didn't dare try to attract his attention, what with J.