Word: sweete
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Governor Sweet of that state seconded the nomination of Mr. McAdoo ?with interruptions by Smith followers...
...would seem now we can hear the soft voice of sweet reasonableness coming to us from Monticello, the voice of 'Old Hickory,' coming across the Blue Ridge from the Hermitage, and from that historic crypt at St. Albans we hear the mighty voice of Woodrow Wilson, wistfully calling to us: 'To you, from failing hands, we throw the torch. Hold it high! Hold it high! Carry on, carry on; keep the faith, keep the faith...
...efficient) direction of the Rev. Boyd Edwards. Lawrenceville is the bailiwick of Mather A. ("Bot") Abbott, a man who acts as he looks and looks as he acts?vigorous. He has taught Latin at Groton and coached crew at Yale. Exeter, biggest of the lot, is guided by the sweet sternness of Lewis Perry, a Williams College man, of the intellectual Perry family. Despite Mr. Perry, Exeter is popularly more famous for her quarterbacks than for her poets. Nearby is Andover, dignified by "Al" Stearns, who personally coached the Andover ball team for many years and who has contributed more...
...mortal sweet within...
...plays some old archaic song. His muse is not one of the Goddesses of Poetry; but rather he bows down before the musical one. For him nature is not a sight; it is a sound, and a melodious and harmonious sound it is. At times some echoes of this sweet soft music creep into his verse. At other times he thinks of it but cannot embody it. Indeed he tells us himself...