Word: buts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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... All French Canadians are, ipso facto, whether they like it or not, British, and I assure you that the vast majority of them not only like it but are inordinately proud of it. ...
The unpoetic minstrel of the Texas plains, who belabored the lines into being, jingled not of President of the White House Franklin Roosevelt, but of President of the Senate John Garner. . . .
Please permit a reader to submit a nomination for not one but two Men of the Year. They are Neville Chamberlain and Edouard Daladier. . . .
At first glance, few people would think of Walter Lippmann as a great detective. Courteous, well-read, softspoken, with a vocabulary greater than Sherlock Holmes's (and far more normal habits), he could talk international finance with Morgan partners, politics with Presidents, and seem much more like a reassuring...
> Laying the cornerstone of the $3,000,000 Thomas Jefferson Memorial in Washington, he made a strong, simple speech, praising George Washington as "a great moderator in bringing together discordant elements in the formation of a constitutional nation"; praising Lincoln as "counsel for the underprivileged . . . foe of malice, teacher of...