Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unbending devotion to the principles of constitutional government." Answered Mr. LaFollette : "From my heart I thank you for your stirring message and welcome the support you pledge. . . .We are hearing much in this campaign of the Constitution and of Americanism. I am content to have it so. But I insist that the best friends of the Constitution are those who dared to voice their protest when that instrument, ordained to give perpetuity to the immortal declaration 'conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal,' is invoked as a shield for corrupt...
...accordance with the traditions established under old King Ludwig's patronage in the ancient golden Wagnerian days. Not a note was "cut" from any of the enormous scores; no concessions were made to the limits of human patience on the part of the audiences. Richard Wagner used to insist on live beasts on the stage for his various animal-parts, and his widow, Cosima Wagner, who is running this show, insists on the same. 'Consequently this year's crop of Bayreuth pilgrims are viewing with glee Fricka's flock of real goats, Wotan's ravens...
...Watson, who is Chairman of their Committee, frowned. He said he believed that the country was tired of investigations. He asserted his belief that no further good could come of this one. He intimated that if they were going to insist on hearings he would resign as Chairman. The majority bowed and said that in that case Mr. Couzens would be made Chairman...
Interallied Debts. "With the grave problem of definite security for France, interallied debts will be the subject of further conversations which we have mutually undertaken to continue. With all the strength of which I am capable, I insisted and I will insist on the unfavorable situation in which France will find herself even after execution of the Dawes plan if she does not obtain a just settlement of this matter...
...same time, there are those annoying objections that insist on occurring to even the best disciplined minds. While it would be entirely delightful to be tall enough to see over the fences of football fields and baseball parks, going home to bed after the game would present difficulties of striking proportions. And if Mr. Ringling's giant, feeling about in the dark for the tooth powder, selected the wrong jar, the result would be colossal...