Word: manly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tariff warfare and needing counsel, he had followed a natural course. Great-bodied Lieutenant-General Watson, nominal chief of all the Republican forces, cried faintly that his subordinate had done quite right. Tall, thin, generalissimo Smoot tried to tell how he had warned his ignorant comrade to send the man Eyanson away, which was done. But these cries were drowned by the angry outbursts of Insurgent Brigadiers Norris and La Follette...
...regard it as the duty of Wilson's friends to tell all they can by way of clearing the man's reputation as a human being. (As a statesman he needs no defense.) His mistreatment of old friends was pathological. And those few friends of his who survive him, serve him ill in still trying to hide the entire physical history of the man. To be sure, he so wished it. But, as I said, he was his own worst...
While the curious were still wondering precisely what the alleged "infirmity" might have been-perhaps the prostate trouble long accepted as fact by newsmen who knew Wilson-an answer to Professor Pitkin at length did appear. It came from a man who knew Woodrow Wilson with undoubted intimacy-Joseph Patrick Tumulty, for 13 years his private secretary, confidant, biographer. Choking with indignation, Mr. Tumulty assailed the anonymity of Professor Pitkin's informant: "If this be a privilege reserved to psychologists or psychoanalysts, as Professor Pitkin is supposed to be, as well as a teacher in a school of journalism...
...Woodrow Wilson did not quarrel with every friend he had, as the Professor alleges. He quarrelled with no man. He differed at times with others but he was too big to quarrel...
...taking a $100,000 bribe from Doheny.* With his 68th birthday only seven weeks off, with a physician beside him to watch over his infirmaries, Fall boarded a train at El Paso. Entraining at Los Angeles to testify at the trial was Alleged-Briber Doheny, himself an aging man but no longer under indictment...