Word: moreâ
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...moon has waxed to the first quarter. Presidential candidacies now definitely pass into a new phase. Congress opens; the President's message is delivered. All those afflicted with the midwinter's madness of political ambition must soon speak or hold their peace for four years more??? all at least accept the occupant of the White House, who has the privilege of intimating that he has forgotten even such a matter as a Presidential year in the press of official duties...
...father had been before him, where one of his brothers (who later became Governor of North Carolina) then was. In 15 years, by his mastery of diatribe and skill in the strategy of legislative wrangling, he had made himself Democratic floor leader in the House. In four years more???four strenuous years of war time activity?he had brought on himself a stroke of paralysis from overwork. For three years he had clung to his seat in Congress and continued to hold, for all his ill health, at least the nominal leadership of the House Democrats. Now he is dead...
Berlin again?utter poverty?furious labor, this time on a novel?failure once more???an attempt as a tutor ? as an actor ? as a tutor again, and this time an interval of peace, of what was almost luxury, as the protege of a rich banker. Then a deliberate return to the slums?the impulse to write?to probe into odd corners of life too strong to be denied. At last the edge of the precipice?no reasonable future in sight?abruptly followed by what proved salvation?the offered editorship of a new political weekly. The book ends there...