Word: cordially
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There his reception was historic but not cordial. Upon his tall soberly garbed figure descended all the old righteous rage of the East against the Latter-day Saints. Christian pastors bellowed for his expulsion from the Senate. The ancient horrors of polygamy were dragged out and paraded before the world?despite the fact that polygamy had long since ceased to be a tenet of Mormonism. Humble and meek to a fault, Senator Smoot hung on against this two-year gale of religious disapproval, worked, waited, prayed. At the feet of Aldrich and Penrose and Lodge he became an apt pupil...
...government has entrusted to me the very agreeable mission of conveying to you their most sincere good wishes for the continued and increasing prosperity of the great people whose destinies are committed to your care." Replied President Hoover: "I will ask you to convey to your Government my cordial and friendly greetings and my best wishes for the welfare and prosperity of the people of the Irish Free State...
...action of the Corporation in approving the athletic relations have been most cordial during recent years...
...priceless item, Sir Joseph is usually found sitting sedately nearest the prize with a millionaire look which defines and demands his desire. Duveen is unquestionably the most potent name in art marts of both hemispheres. The Duveen offices in Manhattan have an air of grim impregnability rather than a cordial fagade...
...colleges make a definite pledge regarding operations with their property, while the city can make only an unofficial agreement to cooperate with the universities' plans for closing and widening streets. But according to Mayor Quinn that is all that can be done under the law, so that however cordial the present Cambridge administrators may be toward institutional policies they feel unable to pledge their successors to any definite course...