Word: manly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This energy backed by an unflinching sincerity is the outstanding feature in the life of these two men. It made Roosevelt a great stateman, writer, scientist, sportsman, soldier. It made him the most beloved and the most hated of any public man in America. This restless dynamic spirit carried him from the White House to the jungles of Africa and South America, from ranching on the western praries to leading his men in action at San Juan Hill. His fearless Americanism in the Venizuelan trouble with Germany made the Kaiser exclaim afterwards, at the height of his power, that Roosevelt...
...disrupting all France, brought him many personal enemies among the military class. But in spite of all hostility to his past record, the French nation recognized him as its most implacable foe to Germany, its greatest patriot, and, in the dreary days of the winter of 1917-18, the man to raise the French morale...
However much we may disagree with their foreign policy we must all admit that the one was, and the other is, a man. Both Roosevelt and Clemenceau gave their entire energy whole heartedly to the interests of their own country; Clemenceau is still giving it. Both are recognized as nationalists, not wholly in spirit with the new internationalism. But this was and is due to the passionate love of each for his own people, above and beyond everything and everybody else. Their spirit represents nationalism glorified...
Here is an understanding of dissatisfaction which puts the initiative upon the educated man rather than the police force...
Lowell--The Man and Author...