Word: statesmanly
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...first Russia scarcely seemed to notice Winston Churchill's historic challenge to Soviet expansion. Then suddenly, eight days later, the Moscow radio blared forth. Joseph Stalin, in an interview with Pravda, made one of the bitterest peace time attacks by one statesman upon another...
...Meyers set out to become a statesman. When a reporter told him he would have to learn parliamentary law if he was to preside over the state senate, Vic said: "To hell with that. Good old American law is what we're going to have...
...Damascus. But Theodore Roosevelt and his attitude toward the powers that be, the status quo, the economic, social and political order, certainly did begin to penetrate my heart. And when I came to the New Testament and saw Jesus, not as a figure in theology . . . but as a statesman and philosopher who dramatized His creed by giving His life for it, then gradually the underpinning of my Pharisaic philosophy was knocked out. Slowly as the new century came into its first decade, I saw the Great Light...
Greer Garson and Brigadier General Carlos P. Romulo, Resident Commissioner of the Philippines, got the homage of honorifical Rollins College at Winter Park, Fla. Actress Garson: an honorary Doctor of Humanities; Statesman Romulo: an honorary Lit.D...
...into yet another embarrassment. Free on bail pending appeal, the mayor had been given a brass-band welcome by devoted Bostonians; then somebody chose to bellyache about a new constable he had just appointed: Frank J. Moriarty, alias "Turkey" Joyce, oldtime housebreaker and off-&-on jailbird. Careworn Statesman Curley sighed, bowed to the popular will, booted out Moriarty...