Word: statesman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Theodore Elijah Burton, 77, suffering complications after an attack of grippe he had last month. It was the President's second call since the senator fell ill. He stayed some little time, the chunky, healthy, 55-year-old executive talking with, and listening to, the venerable legislator, scholar, statesman, peace-seeker...
...regard it as the duty of Wilson's friends to tell all they can by way of clearing the man's reputation as a human being. (As a statesman he needs no defense.) His mistreatment of old friends was pathological. And those few friends of his who survive him, serve him ill in still trying to hide the entire physical history of the man. To be sure, he so wished it. But, as I said, he was his own worst...
Untimely seems the death of every great leader. Most untimely for Japan and the Seiyukai Party last week, was the death of Statesman Tanaka, whose determined methods had sometimes brought him the name of the "Mussolini of Japan...
...several breathless seconds officials could not precisely state the whereabouts of Statesman Hughes. But he was not found squashed under dazed and groggy Poland. With the quickness of an elf, little Billy Hughes had dived under the ringside bench just before the Pachyderm landed. "I've always been spry," smiled Statesman Hughes as he crawled...
Manhattan reporters went down to the imposing Cunard Building in lower Broadway last week to have a look at the elder and distinguished statesman brother of famed onetime Australian tennis champion Norman Brookes...