Word: losely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...certainly do not expect ever to run for public office again. I have had all I can stand of it. I have given a quarter of a century of probably the best years of my life to it. I will never lose my interest in public affairs, that is a sure thing. But as far as running for office again is concerned-that's finished...
...right to the name, the confirmed is no longer the virgin she should be. There was always a new suspicious twist in the affairs of the carpenter, the fishermen, the doctor, the pompous Consul. And Oliver, swashbuckling sailor returned legless from a storm at sea, would no doubt lose his sweetheart to the steady carpenter. But Petra married Oliver in spite of the gossip, and bore five children. Of course the brown-eyed boys might belong to Consul Johnsen, wealthy shipper, and the youngest was no doubt fathered by the lynx-eyed Lawyer-but the Doctor, who fostered this gossip...
From the scholastic point of view Harvard could lose nothing by announcing to her students that class attendance is a question for individual judgement...
Empty Measure. If it is bitter to lose the Presidency, how much more bitter it must have been to lose one's right to run for the Presidency. His supposed ability to carry mighty New York had been the President-reject's right-to-run. Many a Democrat had regarded the Smith candidacy of 1928 as a test of what might be in 1932. Among more than 4,000,000 votes, the Hoover margin of 100,000 over Smith in New York was not numerically enormous. But psychologically it loomed as the terminus of the brief, embattled Smith...
...Most brilliant was Wilson, the man of vision; House his man of execution-for in most things the two worked as one, supplementing each other. True, House did not agree in several vital points: he advised against Wilson's attending the Conference (lest he thereby lose prestige, etc.); he urged the political wisdom of including Republican Root and Taft in the mission; he favored more compromise with Clemenceau, and later the acceptance of the Lodge reservations. But he bowed to the greater man's adamantine will, contented himself with the frequent occasions when his advice was accepted; devoted...