Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Speaking for the followers of the teachings of Saint Nichiren, it is my first duty to convey to you their heartfelt gratitude for your and your countrymen's magnificent generosity...
...should unflinchingly and steadfastly stand by his eternal doctrine of tolerance, love and righteousness. My second duty, then, is to convey to you, and through you to the American people, the humble assurance that we who endeavor to follow Nichiren will do all in our power to convince our countrymen that the way to set American-Japanese relations aright is to walk in the footsteps of the Great Saint...
...awaited the fertile mind of a Rhode Islander to discover the latter difference. It so happens that in Rhode Island the country districts are Republican, the city districts Democratic. Since the country existed before the city, the State Constitution was made by the countrymen, and the countrymen-Republicans have been jealously guarding the Constitution ever since, in order to preserve it from the ravages of the citymen-Democrats...
...Harvey needs no introduction to the American reading public. Signal as were his achievements in the field of diplomacy, it is as a journalist that he is best known to his countrymen. Successively staff-member of the Springfield Republican and Chicago Daily News; Managing Editor of The New York World [at 27]; President of Harper & Bros, and editor of Harper's Weekly; editor and publisher of the North American Review; editor and publisher of Harvey's Weekly, briefly epitomizes his journalistic career...
...partisan became a diplomat, a courtier. The mind that had formulated the deadliest slings of politics turned genteel phrases. Words, always free to him, fell in modulated periods from his lips, tinted with no mean wit, with some felicity, some eccentricity. Being away, he was yet ever with his countrymen, catching their notice some times with a ridiculed phrase, some times with an exaggerated gesture. They did not quite like it that he should wear a toga while walking with the Romans. Even the pseudo-Romans failed to appreciate entirely his wearing of the toga. For one, the king...