Word: surely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...issue his South Dakota statement. He "chose" early enough to give the G. O. P. a chance to select his successor. He had, he said, no feeling that the no-third-term tradition applied to him, as he had come up from the vice presidency and he was sure that the country shared his opinion. But ten years in the White House was too long a strain. Wrote Mr. Coolidge...
...sure, he had married Dolly Curtis, a strapping, titian-haired lady whose Brother Charles was Senator from Kansas. But that fact did not affect the smooth and comfortable routine of his life. When Mrs. Curtis died five years ago, the Senator as a widower went to live in the vine-clad Gann home in Cleveland Park, informal Washington suburb. When his brother-in-law sought the presidential nomination last year at the Kansas City Convention, Mr. Gann journeyed out and took charge of the Curtis headquarters. It was pretty much a family affair and all very jolly...
They wanted a 7? fare. So sure were they that a 7? fare would some day become effective that last week they had in readiness millions of 7? slugs to be distributed among subway-riding Manhattanites, Brooklynites...
...pleases in becoming great. Then, one moonlit night, a girl's arms fasten him, innocently, generously, but so tightly that he can never escape. He tries, of course, but finds that his ambition has been diluted by emotion. He settles down in the environment he hates, trapped, but sure that he will not vegetate as all the others have done before him, as even he is beginning to do as the final curtain falls...
...circulation, London's Daily Mail, and other organs of the Rothermere Press flatly predicted, last week, that Britain's newly enfranchised ''flappers" (women from 21 to 30) will prevent the return of the Conservatives with their present independent majority. Pontificating in the Daily Mail, Lord Rothermere declared: "The only sure way of keeping out the Socialists (Laborites) is in the union of the two anti-Socialist parties under David Lloyd George and Stanley Baldwin, and this combination of Liberals and Conservatives would have our heartiest support...