Word: mightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Governor-elect Roosevelt wisely avoided public discussion of the future, specific and inevitable though it seemed. He asserted stoutly that the Smith candidacy had anything but weakened the party nationally-look at that popular vote! He might have gone on-but he didn't-to point out that the Smith power, appeal and tradition were continued in him by every token-the long friendship, the nominating speeches, the direct bestowal of New York's Governorship. He might have suggested, as others did, that in him the Smith power might be liberated from the stigima of Roman Catholicism, Tammany...
Smugly confident, General Hertzog hinted that he might ask the King-Emperor's brother-in-law to dissolve the Dominion Parliament and call a general election as early as next January, perhaps even before Christmas...
...Japanese title of the Emperor is Tenno, an untranslatable word which might be paraphrased, "His Transcendant Majesty, the Emperor Supreme." Gladly Japan poured out the equivalent of a million dollars a day for 16 days to enthrone "The Son of Heaven...
...reached 20,000,000 readers. They have been collected in 45 volumes. Dr. Crane's estimated annual income was $150,000. "If you should ask me," he wrote, "whether I am a Trinitarian or a Unitarian, a Catholic or a Protestant, Fundamentalist or Modernist, Methodist or Baptist, you might as well ask if I am a Guelph or a Ghibelline...
...Argentina, the Spanish dancer* who as a child was première danseuse classique at the Royal Opera in Madrid, as a mature artist the rage of Berlin, of Paris. But the U. S. was different. Her art was subtle, its lines tickling, fine. The U. S. might not understand...