Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that but for the [Boston police] strike Mr. Coolidge would not have attained national position is idle. We do not know what would have happened; but we may fairly suppose that those qualities which were and are his would have found manifestation sooner or later in some way that would capture the attention of the country...
Reverting to the constitutional question, which is fairly sure to crop up when a dissolution is contemplated, Mr. MacDonald said: "The question of dissolution will have to be faced sooner or later and I am glad Mr. Asquith's speech on that subject has received scanty support in the best informed quarters. . . . It was ill founded as an exposition of the practice of the Constitution. Delivered when it was, it was meant far more for the King's ears than for mine, or for any one else...
...only a question of time. One naturally does not hurry preparations when conditions are against the enemy. That is what is happening now. All things are against the rebels. . . . My wife said that I would surely die if I took the field. My answer was that I would sooner die on the field as a soldier than be caught in bed. Really, this revolt has improved my health. The change from civilian clothes to my old military uniform seems to have acted as a tonic. I am feeling much better than for many months...
There is an unrecorded event in the history of that famous ship, the "Nancy Brig". Apparently she last touched at Singapore, Malay Peninsula, somewhere cast of Sucz, and there she has remained. For no sooner did she dock than the cook and the captain bold, and the mate, and the bosun tight and the midshipmite and the crew of the captain's gig, all swarmed ashore, ordered a drink and became at once the president, secretary-treasurer, election committee and sole member of what was destined to be a famous organization. Became in fact, the Harvard Club of Singapore...
...soldier bonus bill, now resting quietly on a siding in the Ways and Means Committee, is almost certain to come up for consideration sooner or later. In recognition of this fact, members of the Committee are waiting for a caucus of the House Republicans to determine and to take the responsibility for the time when the bonus bill shall be reported out. Meanwhile conjecture centers chiefly on the question of whether the bill can be passed over the President's expected veto...