Word: hearted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What would next happen to the bill, upon which many a farmer's heart is set, remained a political uncertainty. President Coolidge stayed on record against the equalization fee (and Secretary Hoover, in a telegram to Indiana farmers, joined him). The McNary-Haugenites, on the other hand, talked of gathering a two-thirds majority in Congress and relieving the farmer in their own way, another Coolidge veto notwithstanding...
...unnoticeable, except that perhaps his felt hat is a little twisted by fingers that itched for the rough surface of a ball, will return the scrub. He has made no sensational tackle beneath the very gallows shadow of the goalpost, he has run back no punts through the very heart of the enemy, he has not heard his name on the tongues of fifty thousand people...
...will offer him the keys to the city and he will find more of his countrymen on its streets than there are in his own capital. He will lecture on Rumanian politics and people will applaud him. He will attend dinners and be lionized. He will intrigue to his heart's content and no one will say him may until he has lived here for a while. Then he will decide that there is no reason why he should go back to Rumania after all, and settle down to a comfortable life of lionization...
...candles of God's, Tonight, my sister perished! Ah, too early! She was still young and all of us loved her; Death has now clutched her in his oily Claws that are strong and stretch like some rubber. Can you not write some words to ease my heart And write about her a touching little poem? And then, though dead, she ever will not Be absent from us though death has riven us apart...
...charming and well-bred a person as Daphne there was much to despise. For Daisy was not only ashamed of her lower middle class family in East Sheen, but pretended they lived abroad, well away from inquisitive friends. Her profession too-writing heart-to-heart patter for London Sunday supplements-seemed to her so painfully vulgar that she concealed it under the name of Marjorie Wynne. Not that it wasn't good of its kind ("Career or Babies for the Post-War Girl?"), and in great demand for its popular appeal, but that was just exactly why Daisy...