Word: sureness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...audience, a Conservative rally of 12,000 persons at Albert Hall, applauded the new and yet familiar sequence of sounds. Just what it meant no one could be very sure, nor did Mr. Baldwin stop to explain. Instead he plunged to a ringing conclusion: "If in Great Britain our work for Democracy should fail, our failure would shake the very fabric of the universe...
...wasn't sure, the year that Harding was nominated, whether he was a Democrat or a Republican. Neither were the Republicans...
...Klux Klan is sure that Smith's foreign policy would be to deliver the United States into the hands of Rome. There are other observers who cite Smith's refusal to be swept off his feet in the post-war Bolshevist hysteria as proof that if he were elected President he would show foresight liberality, and cool-headedness in his foreign policy, that he would leave this department of the Government largely in the hands of his advisers...
There is, to be sure, the question of a personal example set by the Chief Executive. Smith's example would be frankly wet. Mr. Coolidge's is frankly dry. In addition, there is the question of Presidential appointments to the Supreme Court. In the history of this country more than one contentious law has been thoroughly reinterpreted by a new court which has changed in membership. Should Smith, by any chance, have the opportunity to appoint five members of the Supreme Court, the Anti-Saloon League would have good cause for worry...
...Significance. Such a career holds temptations for psychological biographers and makers of historical fiction. Allan Nevins, to be sure, has been tempted, thrilled by Frémont. Otherwise he would not have written 698 pages about him. But Mr. Nevins is a respecter of history, a scholar. His Frémont, entrancing, exacting, will not be a dust-catcher on top library shelves. It has put more life in the prairies than any book since Carl Sandburg's Abraham Lincoln. It has harnessed the antics of land-grabbing, gold-greedy pioneers and hot-tempered politicians. It has gusto...