Word: sureness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sure Democrats...
...Sure Republicans...
Granting the Democrats their seven sure and three probable Senators, they would still need to capture six of the doubtful seats to bring their total to 48** and thus be able to organize the Senate, form its committees, etc. It is improbable that the Democrats will carry more than four of the doubtful states; but whatever happens, the Democrats and insurgent Republicans when they combine will have a voting majority in the 70th Senate. In the present session this situation has been true to a limited extent. That ancient maxim may be applied to the Democrats in this autumn...
...robins as fast as cable relays could click. Local editors in every capital hastily picked a financier of foreign nationality as the documents' author. British editors picked signatory Hjalmar Schacht, President of the German Reichsbank. Germans favored signatory Montagu Norman,*** Governor of the Bank of England. Frenchmen were sure that signatory John Pierpont Morgan was at the bottom of the woodpile...
...stood gazing up at the clouds whence that voice dropped like a wing. High aloft in the crosstrees was that mad Gay-Header, Tashtego. His body was reaching eagerly forward, his hand stretched out like a wand, and at brief sudden intervals he continued his cries. To be sure the same sound was that very moment perhaps being heard all over the seas, from hundreds of whalemen's lookouts, perched as high in the air; but from few of those lungs could that accustomed old cry have derived such a marvelous cadence as from Tashtego the Indian...