Word: kept
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...need for a potent standing Army, a potent Navy. Then he tore into his surest spellbinder, G. O. P. iniquities. He called Secretary Mellon a blasphemer and Candidate Hoover a Britisher. Raising his hand with terrible deliberation, he intoned: "I charge President Coolidge with misfeasance in office. . . . He kept this arch criminal Harry Daugherty at the head of the Department of Justice . . . Calvin Coolidge has done the bidding of the selfish interests every moment of his public life...
...freedom and the opportunity to express your feelings. Frank discussion is good for the soul, national or individual. The Conference certainly gave these 20 nations, large or small, an opportunity for this. There was disagreement, it is true, but it was much better that it be above board than kept repressed. And our delegation came away with the respect, and I believe the admiration, of most of the Latin delegates. Charles Evans Hughes, a member of the American delegation, laid his cards right on the table at the beginning of the conference, and was willing to discuss any question, including...
Those who have kept up with the progress of history writing of late years know that the word "hero" is one that has no place in it. Great men of all kinds have been found to have faults just as grievous as their less famous brethren, and the more noted they were the less were they to be revered when their real selves came to light. But heretofore the public has been left its faith in the bad men of times past. From Nero to the Kaiser, various luckless individuals have been the target of unanimous invective and scorn...
President Leatherbee of the Harvard Dramatic Club made known late last night the results of the secret meeting which kept the lights going in the Advocate House until ten o'clock...
...same sort of places developed distinct types of men. But of whatever type they were, and wherever they lived, they improved their lots. The more difficult it was to gain a livelihood, the quicker and the farther they rose in mentality and spirit. And the purer a race kept itself, the quicker and higher it rose among its neighbors. Today, writes the shrewdly erudite president of the American Museum of Natural History, "purity of race is found in but one nation-the Scandinavian." But, he laments, "so many of its best men have left the homeland for America that today...