Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Finally it appears that "a mysterious old woman, la vecchia Giovanna , . . taught Benito some of her magic lore. . . . 'My blood tells me,' 'I must listen to my blood,' are phrases sometimes used by this statesman-gladiator, so rational normally in coping with the urgent questions which confront him. 'It is no good!' he will add; 'I ' am like the animals. I feel when things are going to happen?some instinct warns me and I am obliged to follow...
Just what the Herr President did or said appeared none too clear. Pressmen, who profess to see "an ironhanded statesman" in the aged Feldmarschall, reported that he summoned the leaders of the Centre parties to him and "commanded" them to settle their internal differences "within four hours" and forthwith to support Dr. Luther. Observers not seeking "copy," however, widely considered the "four-hour ultimatum" a piece of political stage business, designed to enhance the prestige of "the great German figurehead." They asserted that the following Cabinet, officially sworn in late in the week, represents merely the result of six weeks...
...abstain and helped Chancellor Luther to railroad the Pacts through. Their "price" for this aid was announced to have been Chancellor Luther's scrupulously fulfilled promise to resign, so that someone else might form a "Big Coalition" in which the Socialists would take part. Since no German statesman has been able to do this during the past six weeks, Dr. Luther is apparently to carry on and make the best of everybody...
...kept up his hobby, "higher mathematics," and found time to spend hours in the laboratory of his son Jean, a quiet investigator in the field of comparative histology. Last week, by a trick of Fate, it was the good-looking young histologist, not the grizzled care-worn statesman, whose name was blazoned unexpectedly across column heads in the French press...
...look at all, like a star of other days staging a come-back. Opposite her la Edmund Burns whose handsome face has a tendency to fall into a peculiar half sour expression which reminded us of the new explanation of the physiognomy of a certain famous--well, not statesman exactly; to wit, that he was weaned on a pickle...