Word: naturedness
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To all appearances John Nance Garner is just a good-natured man, with a shrewd tongue and no worries in his head, who likes to sit convivially in his office, or go to a baseball game with a few chosen friends. To Washington wiseacres, however, he is recognized and respected...
*No extravagance was the farmers' choice of transport. Washington is divided into three taxicab zones. A ride anywhere in Zone 1 costs 20<<4 and Zone i covers practically all the business and government building section. Since five can ride as cheaply as one, a two-mile trip can...
His political tutor was his uncle, Henry De La Warr Flood, who in Woodrow Wilson's time was Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. In the same era Harry Byrd was a freshman in the Virginia State Senate. He did not smoke and he did not drink (to...
None of these 20 stories was translated. Author Neagoe writes in English, which he studied to good purpose in. his years in the U. S. Author Neagoe's sturdy language fits his Rumanian senses well but seems awkwardly foreign when he writes of the U. S. One story ("Gavrila...
Of its Moscow bureau, Boston's Christian Science Monitor asked recently: "Has Russia gone Democratic?", referring to Premier Molotov's recent announcement of "secret, direct and equal" suffrage. Excerpts from the tart answer of Monitor Muscovites last week: "If the Communists were content to express their aims honestly...