Word: mightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...just started to work in a tobacco field. When one of his fellow laborers said to him, 'If my father was President I would not work in a tobacco field,' Calvin replied. 'If my father were your father, you would.' "We do not know what might have happened to him under other circumstances, but if I had not been President he would not have raised a blister on his toe, which resulted in blood poisoning, playing lawn tennis in the South Grounds. "In his suffering he was asking me to make him well. I could...
...addition Secretary Kellogg let it be known that the administration might go even further in support of the present Mexican Government because the Government had shown "a willingness to live up to its international agreements"?that is, to protect U.S. citizens and property in Mexico. He said there was precedent for allowing Mexico to transport troops through the U.S. in order to make a concentration against the rebel forces in northwestern Mexico...
...quiet death when the Judiciary Committee reports. For ten minutes during this brief session of the Senate, Vice President Curtis presided for the first time in his new capacity. He rapped with his gavel so often and so lustily that Senators began to grumble, to wonder whether he might prove to be other than the meek & mild presiding officer that he was expected to be. He had promised not to criticize the rules of the Senate but he made it look as though he intended to enforce them...
...other times when the Government expected to be able to pay them off. They would have to be sold below par and the difference between the purchase and redemption values would constitute the interest yield. This system is now used by the British Government and it is believed it might result in considerable interest savings to the U.S. because: 1) bills need be sold only when money is actually required; 2) there would be no chance for error such as the Treasury's offering an issue at an unnecessarily high rate of interest (by reason of a poor estimate...
...sometimes said that, what with all the beard, gestures, famed lines and ancient prejudices that cluster about Shylock, the part is an iron-clad one; and that. since the play is either tragedy or comedy depending on the audience, it might be done as well by Eddie Cantor as by a Great Actor. However true such flippancies may be about the type-part of Shylock, they are certainly untrue of the play's great character-part, Portia. And the Arliss tour was memorable for its introduction of the youngest Portia, and one of the best, on record...