Word: letting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...That's what Horace said, and it means "It frightens me to see all the footprints directed towards thy den, and none returning." Now it turns out that Horace didn't say these words at Cornell Saturday afternoon; on top of that, he never went to Harvard. But gentlemen, let us grant that Horace thinks and writes as if he were educated, along with the rest of us, in the Harvard Stadium, with time out for an occasional field trip to places such as Charlottesville or Ithaca...
...fall, when Egan was in South Bend watching Army play Notre Dame, he wrote a column about the excellence of the Cadets, even though they were mashed up, and paused in the middle to say "I have just received the awful intelligence that Harvard will play Army next year." Let us not sink, along with Egan, into the depths of despair. Let us be unemotional, and remember that "to hope till Hope creates from its own wreck the thing it contemplates . . . this is alone Life, Joy, Empire, Victory!" That's what Shelley said; translated it means that when you have...
...know that Postmaster General Donaldson's hands are tied. The one Postmaster General who has risen from the ranks-a laudable appointment-finds himself harried by the demands of provincial politicians . . . Let us see ... if he will turn to Paul Sample, Norman Rockwell, Grandma Moses, and other greats, to give us designs depicting the American Scene which we love...
...said: "The totalitarian states must not misunderstand what is happening here . . . When we change our national Administration next January, as I firmly believe we will, it will be for the purpose of strengthening our country, cementing our national unity, and waging the peace with greater skill and effectiveness . . . And let no dictator or trigger-happy militarist anywhere make any mistake about that...
...woman with an instinct for privacy, Mrs. Roosevelt reportedly never let her picture appear in a newspaper until her husband was elected Vice President (although he had previously been New York City Police Commissioner and Governor of New York). In the White House, she managed her family and her husband with serene competence and quiet humor. She improved the White House gardens and its housekeeping. Visitors caught glimpses of her reading to her children, or sewing at an upstairs window. She kept a watchful eye on Teddy, often interceded at state functions with a quiet "Theodore! Theodore!" (The President always...