Word: often
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Corruption, in both parties, in local as well as national government, "too often . . . viewed with indifference. . . . Dishonesty . . . is treason. There must be no place for cynicism...
Missouri. When handsome, eloquent and often blatant Senator James A. Reed was thwarted in his presidential ambitions, he said he was through with politics-but not quite. He wanted to name his successor in the Senate. He picked a Wet named James A. Collet. He compared Candidate Collet's opponent, a Dry named Charles Martin Hay, to Alabama's buffoon Senator James Thomas ("Tom Tom") Heflin. But Missouri voters, last week, gave Senator Reed a farewell rebuke and gave the Democratic nomination to Mr. Hay, who is neither handsome, eloquent nor blatant. In school, Mr. Hay was bright...
Since a lady-in-waiting is always present at the meetings of the Princess and 70-year-old Fiddler Ysaye, Brabanters considered the phrase "too often" outrageous and uncalled...
...enough French to earn his living by teaching it. Helper Mussolini wrote perhaps a quarter of each daily issue of Il Popolo. He cleaned up editorial and publicational odd jobs innumerable. Then he snatched time to write the paper's weekly feuilleton or "feature," which was most often a Socialist tract or homily, occasionally a short story, and only once under Mussolini achieved the serialized splendor of a Grande Romanzo...
...golf links where, of a Sunday morning, there is a confusion of white knickers, strangely-hued sweaters, sliced drives, flubbed putts, loud curses, impertinent caddies. But these same links have also produced groups of players whose golf is a source of amazement to the Sunday crowds and who may often be seen practising on weekday afternoons...