Word: sureness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American statesmanship that first threw out the idea which has fructified in the Dawes scheme. That scheme has thus been sure from the start of the good wishes of the American people. But it is now the adopted instrument of the American Government. The U.S. is at this moment definitely and officially associated with the task of applying it. She has what she has not had before, a Governmental stake in its success...
Shortly afterwards, "the smiling, swarthy, confident little Socialist from New York," Congressman Fiorello H. La Guardia, wrote a letter to U. S. Secretary of Labor Davis. He asserted that "this Grand Duke Boris" was coming to the U. S. He wanted Secretary Davis to make sure that the Grand Duke was not likely to become a public charge. Said he; "I believe the department would be justified in ascertaining whether these repudiated, unemployed and shiftless dukes and archdukes are not coming here with the intention of overthrowing our republican form of government in the hope of establishing a monarchy. According...
...work in two sharply contrasting poems: "Disoriented", sapphics in which a strictly classic treatment of form encloses a romantic elaboration and decoration of feeling; and "the Passing of Shaughnessy" which fuses the fantasy and conceit of pre-classical phrasing in English poetry, a music that has the sureness of old rhythm and the freedom of new, and a nervous presentation of story conspicuously modern. Last of all, John Marshall in "Poem", curiously classic and free of tradition at once evokes briefly the feeling of dreams fascinating because too tenuous for sharp perception. And after the last, I find lost among...
...kingly beasts, get their buns. But there is a rhyme in this book about a King who had a hard time getting so much as a piece of butter for the royal slice of bread. He asked the Queen to tell the Dairymaid to tell the Alderney to be sure to make some butter...
Last year, the Dominion Parliament at Ottawa passed a vote legalizing the union. It provided that a majority vote of each congregation shall decide whether that congregation shall join the union or stay out. The voting is still taking place and, from known results, is sure to return a handsome majority of Unionists. The union of the three churches is to be consummated in Toronto on June 10. Each denomination is to hold a great and last conclave, each is to form a separate procession, converge upon a central point, march on as the United Church of Canada...