Word: rooseveltism
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...band together in a group. It was a fantasy of the bored and excessive, trying to entertain themselves. The boys decided their title should probably be something fun, something appropriate for women and children. Finally, the Pudding's singers rested their eyes on three trophy crocodiles, shot by Teddy Roosevelt '80 and mounted over the bar's fireplace. In inebriated Greek, they dubbed themselves the Krokodiloes...
...first authorized biography of a sitting President, Ronald Wilson Reagan. Part of Morris' mountainous $3 million advance was already earning interest in the money market. "He seems so vacant, so empty," Morris complained. "Yet he did great things; he was a great President. Maybe as great as Teddy Roosevelt." Edmund had won a Pulitzer for his 1979 biography of the heroic...
...vivid as to make it seem Morris sat with the two leaders. In fact, Morris admits he was not there; he went to Iceland later and, relying on interviews, "enjoyed the scribe's traditional advantage of being able to recollect emotions in tranquility." Morris' brilliant portrait of Teddy Roosevelt's rise to the presidency was of course built from research embellished by his imagination...
...waves of Allied troops would have been incapable of fighting. Eisenhower could not have withdrawn them. Hitler could have held his positions, and Operation Overlord, the master plan for reconquering Europe, would have disintegrated. Ike would have lost his job, the Churchill government could have fallen, and President Franklin Roosevelt might have failed in his bid for a fourth term...
...spite of his patrician background and private-school education, Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, who was also president of The Crimson, had no trouble reaching out to the common...