Word: content
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Charles Gates Dawes: "Last week, the Vice President and I celebrated our 38th wedding anniversary, received a flood of congratulations. I am usually content to let my politically pugnacious husband occupy the spotlight. He does it so spectacularly. It seems to have become our duty to eat all the dinners that Washington people would like to have the President and Mrs. Coolidge enjoy. As the social buttresses of the Administration, we rarely find time for a quiet evening at home...
...bounded Senator Bruce (father-in-law of Andrew W. Mellon's daughter): "Well, the number of senators who decline a drink when it is offered to them could be put into a smaller cubic content than a taxicab...
Americans who read this exchange of compliments in the press pictured Viscount Gladstone as a young pup, for all his peerage, a loud and foul-mouthed lord. Had Captain Wright rested content with $625 damages, he and his charges against the late Prime Minister would have seemed vindicated. But Captain Wright, having drawn blood, or rather golden damages, tried for more. He brought suit for libel against Viscount Gladstone, who happens not to be "a young pup," is aged...
Community Welfare. "Doctors in general have been too individualistic, too content to minister only to the needs of their own patients, and too little interested in community conditions." -Surgeon General Hugh S. Gumming, U. S. Public Health Service...
...American politics every year; and the more evident this fact becomes the less inclined are college men to consider public life as a career or to take any personal interest in the Government. The country is rich and prosperous; the college man who is a lazy individual is perfectly content to let the Government sink as it has been sinking gradually for many years into the hands of selfish not too greedy and fairly competent men. A recent novel of Washington life only increased this feeling of apathy by painting an even blacker picture of corruption than has ever been...