Word: endlessly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...awed to silence and helplessness by the traditions and dignity of the Senate, would be a continuing scream, a clown without cleverness, the most perfect specimen of the cheapest kind of cross-roads orator, such as we see in the comic strips, the Senate ever has known ?an endless delight to the humorous section of the press gallery. He would draw on the State abundantly the shame and ridicule it has earned justly...
...clown without cleverness, an endless delight to the humorous section of the press gallery...
...help from anybody." Maximilian Harden, German editor, intractable enemy of the Hohen- zollerns: "The certainty that war has lost its last glowing charm of romantic chivalry or knighthood, that it has lost the manly nobility of a fight to be decided by personal valor, and has become an endless war of industrial masses of matter and physical and chemical devils' work...
...public does not know -and will not -all the plans he made, all the preparations he laid, some long ago, some recently. It is not known what endless effort he invested, what sums of money -his own and other people's. The Doheny retainers which cost him so much politically -who knows but they were all sunk in the great débācle? Certain it is that almost half the strength of the Democratic Party was not assembled under one banner with out herculean effort, without a well-furnished purse...
...McAdoo, literally, it did not occur that he might quit. These years of work, these endless efforts, promises, pledges, payments, worries, what not-all had been endured. It was ridiculous to suppose that he would quit. He had only to hang on. Across the whole country he had cut a wide swath of victory. In time, he would mow the rest...