Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...press he said: "Well, it has been a long, hard job. . . . I feel satisfied with the campaign I have made...
Naturally, when President Wilson went to the Versailles Conference he took the Secretary of State. Mr. Lansing opposed linking the League Covenant with the Peace Treaty, was antagonistic to the Treaty itself. He had many erudite theories. But President Wilson had long felt the onrush of foes, foreign & domestic. His visionary ardor had become imperiousness, self-sufficiency. He conferred with the Secretary only once, ignored his ideas. Robert Lansing impotently watched the wise foreign diplomats, wrote in his diary that Mr. Wilson was a "catspaw." The forcible, white-haired Secretary was himself not even permitted the directed force...
...Raskob wrote a long letter about it all to Dr. Work, the Republican National Chairman. To make sure Dr. Work got the letter, Mr. Raskob sent it by two members of his staff from Manhattan to Washington. They called on Dr. Work in person, presented it, asked if there was an answer...
...stuff" article proved to be a long rambling piece with passages oddly reminiscent of Senator Moses' own forceful style. Excerpts...
...Governor Smith belongs to a church which holds adulterous every wedlock not favored by its Pope; which brands as bastardy every birth not blessed by its book; which denies sanctuary even in man's last, long home, the grave, save it be hallowed in the dead language of Rome...