Word: righting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...probably be called a hypocrite for leaving the pulpit to take this job. A fellow wrote me I'd go to hell for it. Maybe he's right. If he is, I won't be travelling a lonesome road...
...Nebraska was another Senator who accompanied Fall to determine President Wilson's condition. Last week he assured Senator Cutting that Fall did not, as history has said, rudely snatch the bedclothes off the ill President to inspect him. Said Mr. Hitchcock: "Fall, who supposed President Wilson's right arm was paralyzed, was amazed when the President held up his right arm and shook the Senator's hand. . . . Fall had supposed Wilson mentally as well as physically incompetent. ... He came away from the White House completely disarmed...
...right, Your Worship," said he. "Mrs. Cratchitt and I, we've forgotten our little differences. I've arranged to pay all her debts. As a matter of fact, I've done pretty well. For 30 years I've had a cat's meat round in the City, and if I do say so I'm a man of independent means...
...furiously until midnight, then saw in earliest morning papers that M. Briand had told the famed Havas Agency he would support not a "moderate centre" cabinet but one of "republican union." In plain English this meant insisting that Radical Socialist Daladier seek support for his cabinet further to the right than his own party would stand for. Frenzied, he rushed to the telephone and rang M. Briand's number, rang it again and again, drew his own conclusions when he got no answer? such at least was his story. In a welter of rage he then drafted a letter informing...
...Senate, baldish, flowing-whiskered M. Clémentel is of the Gauche Democratique, a group which corresponds almost exactly to M. Daladier's Radical Socialists in the Chamber. Naturally he expected their support, proceeded with confidence to round up his personal following which lies a little further to the right, finally sought the weighty aid of great Aristide Briand, a statesman supposed to be above party because of his achievements in the realm of Peace...