Word: insistent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Relieved of the embarrassment,'' murmured the plumage of monster Rumor, "of an impending election, Calvin Coolidge will recast his cabinet. Secretary Hughes will be urged to stay-but probably will insist on retiring. Secretaries Mellon, Hoover, Stone will stay. Secretary Wilbur may be removed outward and upward. Secretaries Weeks, Work, New, Davis will...
Those disillusioning persons who insist that war has become entirely a matter of high-powered guns, cannon fodder, and casualties will be thoroughly discomfited by the reports from Morocco. There the dashingly romantic absurdities of uncommercialized combat are being reacted; prisoners are ransomed with Spanish gold; fiery sheiks of the desert sweep across the lonely sands with Damascan blades flashing in the sunlight...
...considering your new proposal ... I must insist that a date be set when my relationships with the church, even as casual supply, shall come to an end. For the sake of definiteness, I name the end of March...
...hubbub grew wilder and wilder until the Speaker arose. "I must insist," he warned the Laborites, "on honorable members allowing me to conduct the business of the House. I will not continue unless I have proper support." He then rebuked Sir Kingsley for having put a supplementary question which could not appear on the paper...
...secret christening of Princess Mary's second son has aroused complaint among the good parishioners of Goldsborough. Though he is only Master Gerald David Lascelles his humble neighbors still insist upon their right to tyrannize over him as though he were the Prince of Wales. Of his, every infantile move they expect him to make a public spectacle...