It wasn’t with shock but with relief that The Scrapbook greeted the news that a Washington tradition is coming to an end: “After nearly 15 years, The Hill is bidding a beautiful bye-bye to its annual 50 Most Beautiful list.”

Described by its creators as “an extraordinarily popular summertime tradition in Washington” (really?), the list was a yearly effort to highlight the handsome and bewitching faces of a town commonly known as “Hollywood for ugly people.” But with rich and powerful men across the nation being revealed as wanton sexual aggressors, it was no longer thought appropriate to celebrate the Swamp’s lovelier creatures. “We felt the list had run its course,” one list editor explained.