Word: manly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...silly ass if I thought for a moment that a man could go to Geneva without power, backing or prestige and break up a conference. I regard Shearer as an undesirable man to have around. He was likely to do more harm than good. He wouldn't stay hitched. You might send him after the cows and he might take a gun and shoot the farmer's pigs instead. I never saw anybody who could get away with a hand-to-hand encounter with a skunk. I don't mean to call Mr. Shearer a skunk...
...companies were believed to be abstaining from intervening in the question of public ownership -won the approval of Lawyer Samuel Untermeyer of Manhattan; Mr. Untermeyer, famed orchid-wearing epicure, son of a "Virginia planter who served in the Confederate Army" (his paragraph in Who's Who) is not a man ordinarily to be found aligned with the House of Morgan and the power companies. Now 71, he has been an active lawyer for more than 50 years, possessor of a large fortune (one copper consolidation which he effected brought $775,000 in lawyer fees). A persistent advocate of public control...
...Lansing, Mich., state officials calculated, on returns from Michigan's new malt tax, that 109,000,000 gal. of beer were brewed last year in Michigan tubs and wash-boilers, enough to provide 174 bottles for every man, woman and child...
After days of furious debate on the Cecil resolution it was considered still too inflammatory to Latin passions to put to vote. To the rescue came. Greece's confident Nicholas Politis, practiced handy man at loosening League pinches. He drafted a compromise resolution which "... confidently hopes the preparatory Disarmament Commission will be able to resume the work interrupted at the last session with the view of framing a preliminary draft convention for the reduction and limitation of land, naval and air armaments as soon as possible...
Doubtless the pale, weak man at Sandringham is glad that he is no Dictator. But doubtless, too, he was pleased by Sir George's fulsome conclusion: "We English are monarchical to our marrow, and because of this national instinct we can smile smugly at Communist vaporings...