Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: What I don't like about England, since Mr. Sydney Walton of London wants to know, is the way every Englishman gets around sooner or later to saying: "Now about these War debts. We're perfectly willing to cancel what the Italians and French owe us. Why don't you Americans join us in canceling War debts all round? Let's all forget the War!" I have told them over and over that since France and Italy owe them and they owe us, the only result of "canceling debts all round" would be to leave...
...Coolidge sought to avoid the appearance of selfish "grasping for office." Presidents, he found, "are always surrounded by worshipers. They are constantly . . . assured of their greatness. They live in an artificial atmosphere of adulation and exaltation which sooner or later impairs their judgment. They are in grave danger of becoming careless and arrogant...
...State Department had no sooner smoothed over one international liquor problem last week, than it found itself confronted with another, more serious...
...discussing at Paris his recent audience with the Holy Father, Cardinal Dubois said: "He mentioned his joy in being able henceforth to travel about freely. Sooner or later the Pope, who claims world-wide spiritual dominion, will visit every part of the globe, America not excepted, of course. The imagination is staggered when one comes to think of what will happen when a Pope sets foot in New York. I do not say that the present Pontiff will attempt it, although, personally, I am sure, he is willing enough. But the day will come...
...other as confidant, neither affair would have turned out so satisfactorily. Into the Lake Country Mark pursued his love-at-first-sight, a charming bit of femininity out of Jane Austen, or-remembering her ferocious father and mysterious exile at Farthing Hall-Jane Eyre. Mark had no sooner wrung from her a timid confession of love than she dismissed him, insisting that her duty lay with the ferocious parent...