Word: america
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Oyster Bay, Detective-Secretary Richey entered Herbert Hoover's service in Food Administration days. Bodyguarding long since ceased to be his sole function. He furnishes the Chief with a pair of extra ears as well as with vigilant eyes and brawn. When the President-Elect went to South America, Lawrence Richey was left behind to Hear Things...
...Norris of Nebraska, now dejected and despondent over the hopelessness of his long struggle, and Tom Walsh of Montana, an able man but always vain and sometimes sentimental, the so-called Progressives in the United States Senate are a sorry bunch of weaklings and timeservers. The Liberals of America are always getting fooled, but never have they been worse fooled than by this small, forlorn and measly gang of false leaders...
George Bernard Shaw, in a letter to the London Observer, published last week, said: "May I beg my worshipers not to scramble too blindly for alleged Shaviana? Otherwise they may share the fate of one of their number in America who just paid $1,500 for a copy of Locke's 'Essay on Human Understanding.'" The "Essay" was advertised as being profusely annotated by Shaw. But the annotations were those of Shaw's father-in-law, Horace Payne-Townshend of Derry County, Cork. Satirist Shaw has never read the "Essay," and he does "not disfigure books...
...honorarium of $25 for each girl you list who may attend Glen Eden through this information; or $50 if the attendance be consummated with the help of your personal influence. Our school and myself being perhaps unknown to you, may I suggest reference to Who's Who in America and to Sargent's Directory of American Private Schools...
...Germany could be completely realized. There would be a sounder mutual understanding of national characteristics which would reduce the friction arising from lack of sympathy. The former unreasoning dislike for Teutonic culture which was so prevalent during the World War has obviously died out, and the unfortunate hysteria of America of 1920 has been cured by common sense...