Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there are also bits of such as the following, from a letter written by Mr. Hoover to a friend to "answer some of the solemn discourses on my private life and crimes...
...apply for such citizenship? No. Many generations of persecuted Quaker ancestors would rise in their graves at such a discovery. ... (b) Did I ever rent a "residence" abroad? I plead guilty of this crime and in mitigation I do appeal to the feelings of fathers who object to hotel life for babies and children. ... (d) I plead guilty to the criminal charge of pursuing my engineering profession in foreign parts again and again. I have a fervent hope, however, that this new doctrine of criminality will not deter our citizens from extending American professions and business anywhere in the world...
...Kent has been so enthusiastic, or so hurried, that he has by no means compiled the fully-detailed lexicon that he might have made, considering his powers and experience. He is repetitious. But he is trenchant, illuminating, entertaining. Items from the actual, continual, successful life and credo of the experienced national officeholder...
...tribute to public life," says Mr. Kent, than whom no pundit is more alert and merciless in exposing public villains, "that governmental graft is bigger news than any other kind...
...Just a sweet little green island set in the blue waters of the Irish Sea, with its rolling hills and slumbrous glens, full of gorse and heather and fern; three or four quaint little fishing ports and one larger town devoted to the joyous and rather rollicking life of the visiting industry...