Word: faces
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Perhaps, some day, contact between the People and their servants can be maintained directly, by colored-wireless-television or something. Then, at scheduled moments during the day or week, the Nominee can simply take off his invisible-silencing-suit or whatever device has been provided for his privacy, and, face-to-face and mouth-to-ear with the whole electorate, can simply say: "Good morning, everybody. I'm feeling fine today. I had a good sleep and prunes for breakfast, thank you. As you can see, the weather's lovely here. I think I'll go fishing...
Arrived at George's modest apartment, Al went up in the old-fashioned elevator to greet Mrs. Brennan and her daughter Mary. What he said was inaudible. He went to an adjoining room to look upon George's face and the flowers which covered a bronze coffin...
...Raditch, however, announced that he would address the peasants. They came on horseback and in carts from the ends of the country to hear him. He stood up before them, a most unprepossessing figure, ill-dressed, half his face concealed by a heavy beard, the other half by thick convex spectacles, for he was nearly blind. He talked to them rapidly, often allegorically and often inchoately. They gave him a reception so passionately loyal, so adoring that it was touching...
...horse and won. Sometimes he made book, sometimes he bet against the bookmakers. He had a staff of scouts and dockers but not infrequently he bet against the information they brought him. Stocky, grey-haired, he used to watch the races with a smile on his face, saying nothing. Horses he liked to bet on best, but (like all good gamblers) he would bet on anything uncertain. He started out as an accountant in England; he staked gamblers when they were down and out. Writing he found arduous; he got his nickname from the way he always signed a booky...
...stern unfriendliness, reviled for advocating measures that his party did not support, Sir Robert Peel was honored at death for sacrificing popular favor and party goodwill to the welfare of the nation. That welfare he fostered by an impressive array of reforms-most of them in the face of impassioned opposition: Catholic Emancipation in Ireland; establishment of constabulary forces-the London Bobbie (or Peeler) by tradition is nicknamed in his honor; wise factory legislation; reorganization of taxation, currency, criminal law; development of a new liberal Conservative party out of the reactionary Tories; and finally, drastic Free Trade measures which initiated...