Word: asserting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scantier than those Mr. Bradford had at hand. Still, it is probable that even if Demosthenes had lived in the last century, M. Clemenceau would not have treated him much differently. Here again it is what the man did, what he meant to his contemporaries and to us that assert their right to be treated fully. And it is surprising to read this book and reflect that it was written by an old man, a professional politician; even in translation it is a sweeping, rhythmic picture. American politicians must be a different breed; young and vigorous, they neither think...
...more than one kind of mind in poetry. It is reasonable to disgree with the way in which Longfellow chose to approach his art, but it might present him more fairly to admit that he may have been right, even though today he seems misguided, rather than to assert as dogmatically as Mr. Gorman seems to do one's conviction that he was far astray. In judging his character apart from his work the biographer says that he was not troubled by the "perilous and incomprehensible moods and passions that animate the poet's soul," that his grief was real...
...Simultaneously the local United Press correspondent at Kansas City, Mo., declared: "When President Coolidge comes to Kansas City to dedicate the $1,000,000 War memorial, Nov. 11, he will be the one and only attraction during his stay here, officers of the memorial association assert...
Whether this ecclesiastical gloom be justified or not, it is a needed palliative for national over-confidence. Minority politicians may assert that the country is decadent, but they always imply that the remedy is simply to place them in power. Individual critics may make despondent observations, but usually they urge a pet reform to set the world aright. Even cynics of the Mencken variety who see little virtue in mankind alleviate the sting of their sneers by a tacit admission that their circle is not beyond saving...
...governorship race, three candidates positively assert that "Old Bob" LaFollette intended them to be the next governor of Wisconsin. Fred R. Zimmerman embellishes all his campaign literature with the following maxim: " 'I have known Fred Zimmerman for 20 years and he has always been right.'-LaFollette." But then, there is the story of Mrs. LaFollette and "Young Bob," who support Herman L. Ekern for governor, who tell how Candidate Zimmerman refused to back "Old Bob" when he ran for President, said, "I have no money and no time...