Word: roote
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clean in an international way. Last week Representative Stephen G. Porter of Pennsylvania, after a conference with President Coolidge, announced that he would put before Congress a resolution proposing a third Hague conference to codify international law. Whenever the Hague or the World Court is mentioned, Elihu Root is waited upon for an opinion. Wise, he has spoken...
...Woodrow Wilson. If Manhattan Schoolteacher Annie O'Rourke put the same question to little Isadore Israbinowsky, he might answer, according to the degree of his precocity, Calvin Coolidge or Alfred Emanuel Smith or Will Rogers. Certainly neither the Governor nor little Isadore would be likely to name Elihu Root. They had undoubtedly seen his name somewhere. Mr. Root must have done something or the mighty President Roosevelt would not have said of him: "He is the ablest man that has appeared in public life in any country in my time." And again, a month ago, onetime (1916-21) Secretary...
...President designated Charles Evans Hughes as one of the three U. S. members of the International Court of Arbitration at the Hague, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of George Gray in August, 1925. The other U. S. delegates to the Hague Court are Elihu Root and John Bassett Moore. Mr. Hughes arrived at the White House a few days after his appointment to spend the weekend...
From time immemorial, farmers have planted their root crops in the dark of the moon, though scientists state it is mere superstition. Similarly, though summer schools now flourish, the real tubers of Education-are not set in until the days begin to shorten. Last week marked the world-wide beginning of mankind's annual effort to keep posterity abreast of the times...
...blood-slavered mouth. Prefect Gueulechien listened attentively. He recognized the woman as a Mme. Jaquin, a Belgian lately released from the jail. But he could not understand her. Peering closely, he perceived that her tongue had been cut out, evidently with a sharp knife, close to the root. He frowned. It would be a vexing investigation, for the Jacquin woman could neither read nor write, and her friends were few. Her late jail sentence had been for gossiping viciously about neighbors...