Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That is his way of going about matters. But he is a queer sort of politician anyhow, this James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. from Geneseo, N. Y. In the first place he comes from a family of Cincinnati? farmer-soldiers. His family has been buying farm land ever since 1790. A few years ago they owned 35,000 acres in Livingstone County, N. Y. His grandfather, once an unsuccessful candidate for Governor of New York, was killed in the battle of the Wilderness. His father went into the Army at 18 and fought through the last year of the Civil...
...French politician once told me, 'France recognizes debts but doesn't pay them, while Russia doesn't recognize debts but seeks, nevertheless, to see if they cannot be arranged...
...Senators give each other unlimited time to talk about a cure for rheumatism. They give the Vice President twelve and a half minutes in four years. That's one reason I made the most of it. "I'm not a politician. I'm an accident. My inexperience is my best qualification for office in these days...
...bell trousers or raccoon coat, not in three-cornered hat or prismatic necktie, but like a well-dressed politician in spats, Mr. Nicholas Longworth received a solemn delegation of men, all of whom he acknowledged as his brothers. They brought him a little wooden thing. Mr. Longworth smirked appreciatively and thrust out a hand interlocking his fingers with theirs in a way that is not to be described in public. Then one of his four brothers gave vent to speech...
...theme is its title: Possession. Ellen Tolliver would not let herself be possessed by the dirty, mean little town where her father, a brokendown politician, and her mother, a purposeful woman, had brought her into the world. She would not let herself be possessed by the adoring little husband who worshiped her while she was meeting the people she wanted to meet, those who lived on a larger scale. It was hard on the people who wanted to possess her and could not. She pitied them but that was all. Her mother she left behind. Her husband pined...