Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Apparently this is a game which no statesman can afford to neglect; its influence on the destinies of man deserves more profound contemplation than our comic section artists have been wont to give, and few others have thought of it philosophically at all. Its devastating effect on family life has become traditional enough to make "golf widow" a picturesque term, and of course, it is well-known that professional men, especially doctors, commonly abandon their patients or clients for the links...
Henry Cabot Lodge, veteran of Senators, son of the New England aristocracy, litterateur by preference, politician by profession, statesman by courtesy, the "clammy-handed," the cold, the unimpassioned intellectual, the foe of Wilson?is now the friend of Hughes. In the Senate a fortnight ago he undertook a defence of the Secretary of State's policy of nonrecognition of the Soviet Government...
...Statesman, London weekly journal of opinion, commented thus upon the appointment of the new Ambassador : "It may be taken as marking a return to the tradition of permanent ambassadorships-a tradition which has been systematically violated by the appointments to Washington during most of the last decade...
Foreign Affairs: Viscount Ishii, veteran statesman...
...arrangement with the Committee on Vocations, Mr. Frank A. Vanderlip, an eminent financier and statesman, is holding this morning at the Union his scheduled conferences with Seniors who are thinking of entering foreign banking or government service...