Word: sure
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before the conference of Anglo-American historians, meeting last week in London, went Premier Stanley Baldwin of Britain to welcome them and to enunciate a Tory view of historical writing that caused a flurry of international comment, mostly favorable. Said Mr. Baldwin: "I am quite sure that if you try to bring up youth on entirely unbiased history he will never read it. I prefer my own method of getting a vivid picture first and correcting it afterwards; because, generally speaking, you do not want to be fair until you are grown up. ... I think that to try to make...
Pointing to Pilsudski's then empty seat in the Cabinet Box, Daszynski concluded passionately: "It is as Marguerite said to Faust, 'I am not sure...
...little while a man came in. Idi was short and slight and he stood quite still for a moment, breathing softly in the dim room. When he found that the room was really empty, he looked around with a quick, frightened turn of his head, as if to make sure that he hadn't got into the wrong flat, and in that glance he saw the letter on the varnished table. He read it and went into his room and shut the door. Pretty soon there was a new smell in the flat, the smell of gas, and then...
...Calvin Coolidge. He had never, he declared, talked to the President. Indeed, the first letter began with an apology. Mr. Rogers was sorry that on his recent visit to Washington he had not called at the White House. He had been too busy. Then, too, he was not sure that the President had any servants; the visit might have been an embarrassment. So he contented himself with giving Mr. Coolidge a graphic survey of the political perils of the times...
...Jones. It had been a strange tournament. Most of the scores were posted in the club house, but anyone might still win it-even Jones. Turnesa had the likeliest chance. His 294 led the field. Leo Diegel, until he took a six on the short sixteenth, had seemed a sure winner. Hagen -"Third Round" Hagen-had thundered around, burning up the course, 4, 4, 3, 2, 4, with four bad holes to spoil his chances at the end. "Wild Bill" Mehlhorn, he of the huge feet and iron wrist, had undone his hope only by an overbold attempt to gobble...