Word: patriote
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Following Weeks to the microphones was the well-known Hibernian patriot, Henry Cabot Lodge, who told his rapt audience that Al Smith's entire family was voting for Dewey and Warren. Lodge then had several nice words for Senator Saltonstall, Governor Bradford and Mr. Weeks. On the way back to his seat, he also said that Joe Martin was a very fine fellow...
After four years of research and writing, Freeman can make this measured judgment: "The patriot emerged slowly. Two generations ago this statement would have been considered defamation. The integrity of the United States was assumed, for some reason, to presuppose the flawlessness of Washington's character and vice versa . . . More Americans will be relieved than will be shocked to know that Washington sometimes was violent, emotional, resentful...
Saturday's run will be at Franklin Parkm Boston, starting at 3:45 p.m. Vogel, who has run several times in Boston's annual Patriot's Day Marathon, promises to be in good shape...
JOHN HANCOCK: PATRIOT IN PURPLE (422 pp.) - Herbert S. Allan - Macmillan...
John Hancock: Patriot in Purple is the sort of biography that has lately become fairly common-a valuable study of a neglected historic figure, written, however, with an air of almost deliberate carelessness, in a scratchy and repetitious prose style, and with modern, skeptical yawns breaking in on the high-minded speeches of the patriots...