Word: sureness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Washington, working at his work part of the time, listening the rest of the time to a new radio he had had installed to be sure of getting Kansas City clearly. At his home was another receiving set. He had worked all over the world at a man's work; given orders, reasoned objectively, sought no praise. Yet there he sat, listening for his friend, John McNab of Palo Alto, to make a speech about him; then for thunderous cheers, roll-calls of delegates, a flattering result...
...That convention is going to nominate me. Everything indicates it. Hoover won't be nominated. Of that I am sure. Neither will Lowden, nor Dawes, nor Watson, nor Goff. It will develop that I will be the compromise and every one will be happy...
...American friend. It seems that one of your schoolmasters had asked a lad to form a sentence using the word 'diadem.' The pupil replied, 'People who drink bootleg diadem sight quicker than those who don't. . . .' You catch my meaning, I am sure...
...some months past foreign speculators have been trying to force the franc up. They would profit by an upsurge, and by the downsurge sure to follow; and in the meantime France would lose immeasurably through the disruption of business occasioned by unsteady currency. Just now France sits fiscally pretty. Her trade balance is favorable. The Treasury has recently refunded advances previously made to it by the Bank of France to the amount of 900,000,000 francs. Such are the blessings which have flowed from holding the franc steady at its present value for almost two years (TIME...
...companies, hundreds of thousands of separate transactions ... for the last quarter of a century, it would be miraculous if there should not be found some instances of bad judgment, of the influence of greed, even perhaps of actual wrongdoing. Such instances, if any be found, will, I am sure, represent a very minute percentage of the transactions under investigation...