Word: sons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Son of Love Divine, To Thy dear name we set apart...
...bandied about between Senate reservations and counter reservations (TIME, Oct. 4.). He hears politicians and editors, young enough to be his grandchildren, say that World Court membership for the U. S. is becoming impossible; he reads that the Official Spokesman (Mr. Coolidge), young enough to be his son, thinks the international outlook is gloomy. Perhaps Mr. Root is sitting at a desk in his Manhattan home writing his last great speech in a language that will prickle the flesh of a clammy World Court issue-perhaps he is preparing his autobiography; the story of a man who might have been...
...five months after General Lee's surrender and Lincoln's assassination, that a not-very-prosperous school teacher from upstate New York packed his valise, boarded a train for Manhattan. The townsfolk of Clinton said Elihu Root would make a name for himself- was he not the son of a mathematics professor; was he not valedictorian of his graduating class at Hamilton College at the age of 19? Within a few years, he organized a law partnership of his own. Some people called Mr. Root a "crook lawyer." Mr. Root was not a crook, but he usually fixed...
...worthy, conscientious, entirely unmeaning and uninteresting son of plump old Edward...
...smart, bullnecked, smoldering son of a blacksmith...