Word: olds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been dining out in Washington for four years and have yet to remember gaining anything from it. I would as soon talk diplomacy with a man with a pipe in his mouth as any other way. My first two months in England will be reserved for my dear old friends of the British Army and the reparations dealings. I want to see General Sir Travers Clark [Wartime Chief of the British Supply Service] who saved the American Army during the first few months...
...round off his diplomatic debut, Hustler Dawes added this final fillip: "I consider that the time of old-fashioned diplomats is over and that people like myself, who are not careerists, have an opportunity for settling the affairs of the world...
Large of pate and paunch, small of eye and aim, Leader Watson perfectly typifies the old-style politician with whom the Hoover Administration is supposed to have little in common. But for that circumstance, Leader Watson could scarcely have asked for more favorable auspices when he set out in March to lead his party in the Senate: a successful election; a majority (on paper) of 16 Republican votes in the Senate; a Democratic opposition lacking a definite program; a new President, potent with the prestige of undistributed patronage. But even with these advantages Leader Watson, thought many of his fellow...
While Washington newsgatherers have lounged in the Spring sun on the White House steps, cablegrams from London signed "Bell" have been passing, unknown to the loungers, into the executive offices. Had they known, the White House correspondents would probably have said scornfully: "Old Bell's at it again." But last week, when the Bell cablegrams were first publicly known about, it was too late to say that. It was official news that Ramsay MacDonald, England...
...something obnoxious to workaday correspondents about a man who conceives the Press to have more than the communicative function. A Bell feat, and the significance attached by him to it, in the year (1924) before Publisher Lawson's death, were typical of what newsmen mean when they say: "Old Bell's at it again...