Word: solidity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have been a part in building so brilliant a weekly of a type which fills so real a place, on lines so solid that its influence will become more and more far-reaching year after year, is, in itself, more than a normal life's work...
...been ratified, His Holiness had positively announced before entering St. Peter's that he would not appear upon the balcony to bless the kneelers. However 200,000 Italians shouting "Il Papa! Il Papa!" in the rain are a powerful inducement, especially when they keep it up for four solid hours. Relenting at last, the vicar of Christ briefly appeared and adequately blessed the sopping flock, but he did not impart the especially potent blessing "Urbi et Orbi!" ("to the city and to the world...
...Livingston Mills and James Wolcott Wadsworth were moneymen, but they have departed from the House and Senate, respectively. Senator David Aiken Reed of Pennsylvania, Secretary Mellon's haggard, Princeton-educated protege, might stand as the senatorial moneyman. In the House are New York's Snell, a florid, solid cheesemaker; Rhode Island's Richard S. Aldrich, son of the late great Senator Nelson Aldrich; and Pennsylvania's Harry Estep, a young Mellonite member of the Ways & Means Committee...
Governor Long discovered a shoemaker who would supply solid boots, good for six months of prison mileage, at $1.60 the pair. This figure made the shoe bill only $3.20 per convict per annum. Pleased with himself, Governor Long loudly called attention to a saving of $50,000 a year or $200,000 for a four-year term...
...rose slowly and went downstairs.... After a while, we grew worried.... There he stood, frozen solid under a shower. He'd left a farewell note--but I can't betray his confidence...