Word: content
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shining qualities of conservative statesmanship and unbending devotion to the principles of constitutional government." Answered Mr. LaFollette : "From my heart I thank you for your stirring message and welcome the support you pledge. . . .We are hearing much in this campaign of the Constitution and of Americanism. I am content to have it so. But I insist that the best friends of the Constitution are those who dared to voice their protest when that instrument, ordained to give perpetuity to the immortal declaration 'conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal,' is invoked...
These deficits occurred in spite of the low cost of editorial content, and give point to the advocacy of one big Christian daily, heavily financed and nationally circulated. Also they enlist sympathy for the present Methodist scheme of making standard boiler-plate "insides" to be shipped to all the Methodist publications...
Either these two new servants expect Mr. Coolidge to renew his lease on the White House, or they are content to take temporary jobs for six months or so. If Mr. Coolidge should not be elected, the new tenant will engage other help...
...play argues amiably the thesis that kindly virtue is likely to succeed even without intelligence. The central character buys oil wells from the villains. The content of these wells materializes as salt water. There is another act in which the properties are tendered again unto the villains for $190,000. Suspense is presumably maintained by the fickle character of these gushers as they become good, bad, and indifferent according to the playwright's exigencies...
...final day, Woodrow Wilson's name was conjured with in Chapin Hall. Prof. Sidney Bradshaw Fay, of Smith College, said he has second-hand but reliable information that Woodrow Wilson died content that the League was gaining ground even without...