Word: hards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mayor not a motor. It was Mayor John Christian Lodge who won office without benefit of one campaign speech, one political promise, one rooster-boost. Wearing a new grey suit and looking not unlike Henry Ford, Mayor Lodge offered his right hand to all-comers. Policemen gripped so hard that Mayor Lodge, wincing but glad, had to give others his left hand. When subordinate city officials were brought forward for formal introduction, Mayor Lodge called them by their first names. He had known them well during his 17 years on the city council (nine years as president). Oldest residents came...
Soon prudent gourmets of celebrity turned from the Count back to his writings, pondered once more the essence of his philosophy: "Anglo-Saxons are particularly prone to misunderstand me, because they find it hard . . . to conceive that a man is able to serve others precisely by living for himself. . . . Even in my childhood the words of Jesus, Woman what have I to do with thee?? spoke more directly to me than any other. . . . Only he who lives for the supernatural can, in the deepest sense, live for himself...
Loomed one real issue, it arose from a hard fact: The Americas are split in regard to great triune ideal of Liberty, Equality, Fraternity. The U. S. stresses Fraternity because there are invested in Latin America some five billions of U. S. dollars. Fraternity is the best policy when seasoned with a little intervention...
...back after a hard struggle bravely fought and splendidly won. . . . No more sincere thanks went up to God for your recovery than from French hearts. France has lost many sons and therefore she clings much more to her friends. . . . You have many times explained France to America, you will have once more to explain America to France. She will believe you, for, to use an American expression, she knows that Myron Herrick is the man 'who delivers the goods...
...other hand, one feels that it is a little bit hard on a lecturer if all his little mannerisms, whether of speech or gesture, are to constitute an indictment against him, as one critic suggests. Even the B.B.C. announcers, who must of course be the most perfect speakers, have their little manenrisms...