Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...longer the Chairman of the Shipping Board, but the President of the Emergency Fleet Corporation-Admiral Leigh C. Palmer. The change has converted the Shipping Board from a body of ship operators, to a body engaged in the general regulation of ocean-borne commerce. It is now principally a sort of Interstate Commerce Commission of the sea. And the smiling T. V. O'Connor leads it in its role...
...When you make a list of the big women in Washington, you can't afford to leave out Ruth McCormick. . . . She is the sort you can't keep under...
...parliamentary "tricks." "I have a lively recollection of all sorts of ingenuities practiced by oppositions in order to spring a snap division upon the Government so that it might be turned out on a defeat. I have known bathrooms downstairs utilized, nor for legitimate purposes but for the illegitimate purpose of packing as many members surreptiously inside their doors as their physical limitations would allow. . . . I have seen this House practically empty when the bells began to ring and then turned into a riotous sort of market place by the inrush of members for the purpose of finding the Government...
...again, but the spirit of revolt will conquer in the end. I am convinced, after reports from the most reliable agents inside Russia, that the country wants a Tsar and a constitutional Government instead of Bolshevist absolutism. There always have been Tsars in Russia, and they always have been sort of spiritual fathers to their subjects. If I in turn gain the throne, it will be to forget my own personality and to work for the best interests of those who have suffered...
...letters ; for there are critics of equal note who find in him little more than vague, abstruse, some what vulgar meanderings. There are those who consider him possessed of great beauty of style, others who see in his sentences grotesque and jumbled collections of words, those who find a sort of visionary health in his philosophy, others who pronounce his ideas those of a decided psychopath. Cham pioned by H. L. Mencken, by The Dial, by even so conservative a critic as Henry Canby, he is a man who must be reckoned with. No one, I believe, questions his genuine...