Word: greatly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will never understand each other at all. In these democratic days when heart speaks to heart as deep speaks to deep and silence talks to silence, personality, personal contact, exchange of views by the lip, sitting at two sides of a fireplace-as it was my great privilege to do this week with your President-these things are to be as important as anything else in laying the foundation of an enduring peace all over the world." Worldwide echoes of the MacDonald visit...
...every ball, the crack of every bat, probably did not much concern themselves with the corporate aspects of the entertainment provided them. Nor, in justice to Mr. Wrigley, could it be said that his connection with baseball was sordidly commercial. The Chicago baseball franchise was no pearl of great price when Mr. Wrigley purchased it, and as recently as 1925 the club finished last in the league race. Then astute Mr. Wrigley got able Joseph McCarthy to manage his team. The Cubs finished fourth in 1926 and 1927, third in 1928 and this year won by so wide a margin...
...when in Chicago eats lunch in the restaurant on the main floor of the white Wrigley Building which towers like a huge birthday cake beside an oily curve of the Chicago river. Snobbish Chicagoans who see him eating there are impressed with what they call the democracy of this great millionaire who was once a soap crutcher. In modern times soap is crutched or mixed by a machine but in the soap factory of William Wrigley Sr., opposite Wayne Junction, Philadelphia, the soap crutcher stood beside a vat of boiling soap and stirred it with a paddle. When Wrigley...
...popular beliefs which she wished to erase: 1) that she is "a great knitter"; 2) that she keeps house for her father...
Throughout a solemn night, members of the Foreign Office stood around the catafalque, raised high above the speaker's tribune in the Reichstag, as rigidly motionless as the great dreary candles. Near was a very showy wreath blazoned with a crown and W from onetime Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm. Next day Stresemann was buried with peaceful pomp. Not a militarist, there was not a uniformed soldier in his cortege, which was led by members of his Leipzig student corps, bearing his student cap, which now lies with him in his grave. The funeral's pace...