Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York Evening Post, then a great liberal organ, in 1881. She also owned the Nation, which was edited by Wendell Phillips Garrison, her brother, from 1865 to 1906. In 1900, her husband died. Thereafter, her sons and daughter having grown up, she devoted herself thoroughly to the sort of causes it was in her blood to champion...
...which was suave and winning. . . . But once touched or pierced it too often turned out to be but a façade and little more. . " 'Al' Smith's façade, the grin, cocked derby and half-chewed cigar . . . has little to do with the sort of 'reality' one has in mind here. . . . Underneath ... is something else-something taut and eager, quickly sensitive; something that boils and struggles in there, that answers and leaps. Touch or pierce that roughneck façade, ever so lightly, and that other something starts, flames, comes leaping back. "There...
...straight home to Albany, with only one brief stopover, in St. Louis, to take tea with President Lewis Warrington Baldwin of the Missouri Pacific R. R. It was really a very simple experience, during which Mrs. Smith at no time seemed nonplussed. She had, after all, undergone the same sort of thing several times before. Mrs. Charles Dana (Irene Langhorne) Gibson, who was present as a special sort of Tammany delegate, left nothing to chance, however, and made a statement to the press. It was after a visit paid by Mrs. Smith to Mrs. Woodrow Wilson at the Jesse Holman...
...Called to command, he found himself a sort of Falstaff reviewing the tatterdemalions of politics, not a few of them outcasts from the G. O. P. He looked again and discovered also in the loose and undisciplined Hoover ranks, in addition to half-ruined guerrillas that were beginning to pluck up hope, an assortment of poets, prophets, hymn singers, professional reformers, unclassified uplifters, novelists, Federal office holders, reformed bootleggers, Anti-Saloon League superintendents, society leaders, social climbers, lame ducks and efficiency experts. This would have dismayed an ordinary general. But Jim Good is not an ordinary general. He took hold...
Edward Sanford Martin, 72, retired as chief editorial writer' for Life. He wrote Life's very first editorial in 1883, saying: "We wish to have some fun in this paper and to have it as nearly of the right sort as may be." Since then Mr. Martin has written nearly every editorial that appeared in Life. His last words were: "And another thing! When you are out in the shopping district, do you sometimes get a disagreeable sensation of everything being for sale? Well, this present world is rather too much that way. Maybe that...