Word: often
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dogs. I have known many senators and mighty few of them were elected because of their ability to pass on treaties, or the tariff, or taxation, or naval and military affairs. It is even doubtful whether presidents are elected on the basis of their understanding of the intricate and often non-sensational problems they are called on to solve. Not that many senators, representatives and presidents have no knowledge of these governmental problems--many of them have. But it is not this knowledge which endears them to the voters. And to obtain and hold office the voter and his local...
...driven by a vigorous personality; here he can see the president steering his middle course and saying nothing; here he can see underpaid clerks swarming from the grimy and red taped government departments; here he can see overpaid members of the now countless federal commissions making self satisfied and often irresponsible decisions reaching into the every day lives of the plain people of the land; here, in fine, he can delight his eyes with the foreign diplomats and the "dancing boys of the state department". I forgot to mention that here too he can see the correspondents of the opposition...
...Constantinople after the War. The French, the English, the Italians and the defeated Turks were perpetually rowing with one another&$151;usually at the expense of the Turks. Admiral Bristol, fair-play fighter, settled a good many of the rows by the intervention of his keen, strong personality-very often on the side of underdog Turks...
...months ago the directors of the Philharmonic Society of New York announced what other orchestra supporters enviously called "the catch of the season"-slim, fiery, volatile Arturo Toscanini of Milan engaged for 1927-28. The Philharmonic had had Signer Toscanini often before but always as a guest conductor. Now he would conduct 41 concerts, be a "regular...
...They let us approach ridiculously close. Sometimes they were too bored even to look at us, and we had to whistle to attract their attention, though often the noise of the camera would bring them out of cover, from curiosity, to join those already before the lens. In all my experience I have never encountered anything more remarkable...