Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...oldtime political parties, between which there is not, yet is, a great difference, was about to nominate a man for the U. S. Presidency. The vortex of the event was in the Midwestern flatlands. The result would work no immediately perceptible change in the day-to-day life of millions and millions of citizens. The result would be a headline in the newspapers, a shout across-lots, a word by radio, to the vague majority...
What made the Wilson awards remarkable, especially in the opinion of men who have sported against West Point, was the supremacy of any one "Pointer" over all his fellows in all-round ability. West Pointers must be fit to get in, to stay in. Their life is rigorous, their sports many. That "Light Horse Harry" Wilson outmuscled and outgeneraled his classmates in all things, was, after all, less remarkable than the fact that in all West Point history (the Academy was founded in 1802) no previous captain of "the manliest sport" has clearly outmanned all his contemporaries in other directions...
...Porters receive life insurance without cost to them, pensions on retirement . . . loans without interest, legal assistance, welfare work...
Grand Sachem Voorhis guessed that delegates to the Democratic convention of 1924 in Manhattan had learned "that the Tammany Tiger was not nearly the vicious animal some of them had supposed. The animal, as a matter of fact, has had one black eye during all its life and only...
Widower de Rivera, who has two children, said, during the brief period of his engagement: "Although I am by no means a youth, my character is still joyous. I feel that I am in need of a domestic life...