Word: rooseveltians
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...frequently as that of Santa Claus. Nathan is the passionate philanthropist. No sooner does he make a nickel (Abraham & Straus, R. H. Macy, emporia) than he gives away six cents. (Since 1915 his donations have exceeded his income.) Oscar Solomon is the zestful statesman (Rooseveltian Moose, Taft Ambassador to Turkey...
...bulkily potent as an elephant's wrist. From the oozy slums half sliming into Lake Texcoco rose a clatter of revelry that carried even to aristocratic patios of the Colonia Juarez. Mexico's 115th Independence Day (Sept. 16) had arrived with the dealth-dealing rejoicings that marked an early Rooseveltian U.S. Fourth of July...
...longer a national hero, the Judge, slight of body, poor of purse,* is left to fight the Klansmen practically alone. And reported as leagued with the Klansmen on this occasion are all the "forces of evil" which the Judge's reforms irritated in the halcyon days of Rooseveltian reform and Wilsonian new freedom...
Died. Reginald Ronalds, onetime Rooseveltian Rough Rider; in Mexico, when he was climbing a mountain to inspect gold and silver mines of which he was part owner. His daughter by his first marriage was known as 'the frappeed baby" from cold storage methods used to cure a childish illness. His mother, Mrs. Pierre Lorillard Ronalds, was a favorite of Queen Victoria...
...Winnie" was madly cheered by his supporters. Smiling broadly, he rushed down the room, shook hands with his wife who had helped him in his Rooseveltian struggle. A celebration began. The counting officer said nothing, but kept working with pencil and paper. He added again, and announced that a mistake had been made: Otho Nicholson had won by a majority of 43 votes. The ballot stood at Nicholson (Conservative), 8,187; Churchill (Independent), 8,144; Brockway (Labor), 6,156; Duckers (Liberal...