Word: countryman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first secretary of Afghanistan's Paris Legation was asked by U. S. correspondents what he thought were the intentions of Nadir. "To you gentlemen," he replied, "I may best characterize the Nadir Khan a sort of George Washington. There is the interesting possibility, that like your great countryman, he may prefer to experiment with some sort of a republic...
...valleys of Wales. There were more than 500 from the U. S., including the famed Anthracite Choral Society of 172 mixed voices from Scranton, Pa. Two girls went all the way from California with their grandmother, aged 74. Others journeyed from Australia. They were welcomed by their most distinguished countryman, David Lloyd George. Then rose the president. In Welsh he cried the ancient ritualistic question: "Is there peace?" The voices thundered: "Peace...
Campolo. Perhaps the most interested spectator of the Schmeling-Uzcudun duel will be one Victorio Maria Campolo who last week arrived with friends in the U. S. from the Argentine. He stands 6 ft., 6½ in.; weighs 225 Ib.; scorns everybody's boxing ability but his own. Of his countryman Luis Firpo he said last week: "He is fat, he is disgusting, he weighs 275 pounds and looks like a wine barrel. But he intended coming to New York last spring anyway. He will not now because I am here...
...height, already portly. His chin is dimpled, his cheeks cherubic, his eyes small and brown, his hair a wavy reddish brown - and his tongue a restless lance of dispute and invective. Still rustic in manner, if not in thought, he keeps the countryman's water bucket and gourd dipper prominently displayed in the executive offices. To win his election he promised the state's farmers paved roads, free hospitals, free school books. As governor he spent money like an Osage Indian on a spree to fulfill these pledges, soon found that more revenue must be forthcoming to keep...
...spoke these words in London, last week, holds the office of Prime Minister and bears the chief responsibility of governing the British Empire. He, Stanley Baldwin, by inheritance a sturdy countryman and industrial squire, continued his remarks to the British and Foreign Bible Society, as follows: "The Holy Bible is not only great but high explosive literature. It works in strange ways and no living man can tell or know how that book in its journeyings throughout the world has started an individual soul 10,000 different places into a new life, a new belief, a new conception...