Word: soon
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Roosevelt linked arms and led him in. Little old Chief Justice Melville W. Fuller, who had sworn the last five Presidents, administered the oath. Then came the historic Inaugural Ball in the cavernous Pension Building. Roosevelt slipped out a side door of the White House and soon was tracking and slaying wild animals in an Africa not yet crowded by tourist-hunters. Taft stayed behind, corpulent, just, constantly annoying his children, the citizens, by his benevolent logic. They had voted for him because the dynamic, hustle-up Roosevelt had told them to. When they found how unRooseveltian Taft was, they...
When Roosevelt came home, he did not like the way his man had turned out. He tried to block his renomination and, failing in that, founded the third party that lost for them both in 1912. Soon the Yale law faculty had the distinction to include an ex-President...
...Soon after the wedding, Mr. Willebrandt's lungs necessitated a move to Arizona. Mrs. Willebrandt nursed him and did all the housework. She had vitality enough left over to take a normal school course in Tempe. After his health returned, she left him. She became a school superintendent in Los Angeles and studied law at the University of Southern California. Her reputation grew with her work as Public Defender of Los Angeles-charity advocate for beaten wives and fallen women...
...true Britons have a sentimental liking for the old East Anglican city of "Yarmouth on the Yare." Last week 2,600 Conservative Party Delegates bustled out to Yarmouth, assembled in the famed "Seaside Hippodrome," and became momentously the Conservative Party Conference. Solemn was the occasion, for a platform would soon be drafted on which the Party will appeal to the country in the forthcoming Parliamentary Election...
...Soon fiery Count Kuno von Westarp, leader of the second largest political party in the land, Die Deutschnationale Volkspartei introduced a still more rabid Monarchist, Col. von Struense, who proceeded to utter things which Count von Westarp, because of his political status, dare not say. Bristling and bellicose, Col. von Struense roared: "A turning point in German history has arrived-this evening marks the beginning of a fight which can end only in the coronation of a German Kaiser...