Word: olds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Old Guardsmen, weary of the eight-week fray, wanted to go home and lick their wounds in private. Democrats also craved a respite; the charge, false or true, that their action on the tariff was largely responsible for the stockmarket crash and business uncertainty made them skittish about pressing their victories...
...1915?a crowded theatre in London, the sudden onslaught of bombs dropping from high up in the air, the rush of startled humanity to the open street, defenceless mortals running hither and thither, a woman screaming as she clutched to her breast the bloody body of a year-old baby and watched her baby's head pitch to the gutter...
...suppose it is natural that my English friends generally, from the King [Edward VII] down, should think I was under the influence of the Kaiser [Wilhelm II], but you ought to know better, old man. There is much that I admire about the Kaiser . . . [but] he himself is altogether too jumpy, too volatile in his policies, too lacking in the power of continuous and sustained thought and action for me to feel that he is in any way such a man as, for instance, Taft or Root. You might as well talk of my being under the influence of Bryan...
These new Republican warriors were called "the Young Turks, a band about 20 strong who had mutinied against the feeble leadership of the Old Guard. For Senators they were young men (average age: 56). As legislative legionaries they were mostly rookies serving their first Senate enlistment...
Marching in the Young Turks' ranks were Allen of Kansas, Glenn of Illinois, Goldsborough of Maryland, Hastings of Delaware, Hatfield of West Virginia, Hebert of Rhode Island, Kean of New Jersey, McCulloch of Ohio, Patterson of Missouri, Townsend of Delaware, Walcott of Connecticut. From the Old Guard they had recruited Deneen of Illinois, Fess of Ohio, Goff of West Virginia, McNary of Oregon, Oddie of Nevada et al. There was even talk of unhorsing Old Guardsman Watson as Republican Leader and putting Senator McNary into his place...