Word: suggester
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...possible course of events which might indicate a connection between these two occurrences is not hard to visualize. The Nationalists, with that consummate lack of tact which has so far seemed characteristic of their operations, suggest the fate Admiral for a position for which, in addition to his known allegiance to the Hohenzollerns, he is probably unqualified by reason of his age and lack of political experience. Immediate hostility being expressed in foreign diplomatic circles, particularly by Mr. Edouard Herriot in Paris, the Nationalist leaders cast about for some means with which to quiet such unworthy suspicions. Alighting happily upon...
...understood that the Undergraduate Committee will not pass on any speaker without first consulting the opinion of the Governing Board and seeking other mature counsel. We suggest that the Governing Board appoint a person, perhaps the Chairman of the Speakers Committee to attend in an advisory capacity meetings of the Undergraduate Committee at which possible speakers are to be discussed...
When very drunk, let her calmly suggest living in illicit arrangement with a prosaic manufacturer who has been courting her with bovine persistence...
...Glass, measuredly: "I just want to suggest to the Senator from Pennsylvania that it seems to me his reason in its last analysis means just this, that the United States having refused to associate with other nations of the world, is now proposing to extend to other nations of the world an invitation to associate with the United States...
...committeeman of Old South Church, Boston, was summering some 40 years ago at Bar Harbor, Me. One day he went over to Northeast Harbor to ask President Eliot to suggest a new minister for his church. President Eliot named a young Scotch preacher at Greenwich, Conn., whom he had recently put through Harvard, saying: "I think he will grow, particularly if he should get the right sort of wife...