Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Once there was a little Victorian boy whose father wanted him to become a great statesman. He was sent to Rugby, to aristocratic Trinity College, Cambridge. Then, in order that he might meet statesmen who really mattered, he went to Germany. He became almost intimate with Bismarck, a great feat for a stripling. The Kaiser himself was reported to have listened without displeasure to the conversation of young Austen Chamberlain...
Born on the Island of Hydra in 1855, he adopted a naval career in his earliest youth, and rose to the distinction of twice defeating the Turkish fleet during the Balkan War of 1912-13. An adherent of Diplomat Venizelos, he shared the fortunes of that statesman until...
Ordinarily, when a distinguished jurist-statesman refuses an invitation to a public banquet, it is only necessary for him to use the words "sorry" and "impracticable," finish off with a sonorous and obviously academical paragraph of good wishes, and sign his name. Last week, however, Elihu Root, having said the ordinary thing to one Merwin Hart of Utica who had asked him to a dinner in honor of Senator James W. Wadsworth Jr., went on and on in a way that would have given any social secretary the willies. Midway in the long second paragraph Mr. Root's meaning...
...Richardson, probably the first great genius among American architects, built twin houses on La Fayette Square in Washington, D. C. One was the home of Henry Adams, historian, man of letters; in the other lived John Hay, statesman. Mr. Hay became Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, then Secretary of State under Presidents McKinley and Roosevelt. Imperceptibly, inevitably, the salon appeared. Henry Adams and John LaFarge would come in, chattering feverishly about the sculpture of Augustus St. Gaudens; Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge would play "a game in which they were always liable to find...
...Senator George of Georgia has a problem to face that would irk any statesman. He is battling for renomination in the Democratic primaries (equivalent to election) against the father of 16 children. This man with these 16 potent arguments in his favor, is Judge Richard B. Russell, whose advocates say that "a man who has done so well by his country ought to be rewarded with the U. S. Senatorship...