Word: tellings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...himself and be voted for. At Cumberland, Md., he paused and spoke again about Prosperity. One aside in this speech revealed the political flair which he had seldom been suspected of having. Spying some of the train crew in the crowd he said: "I think I ought to tell them I am grateful to them. . . . I have come to think of this strip of railroads across the middle of America as my own Main Street, on which I make my journeys from my office to my own front gate...
...Talking about fooling the people-let's devote just a few minutes to this question of prohibition. . . . I know perfectly well that the President of the United States cannot amend the Constitution. Mr. Hughes does not have to tell me that. I know that, and what is more, I know that he knows that I know...
...Thomas Garrigue Masaryk was not idly boasting, last week, when he said to a U. S. correspondent on the tenth birthday of Czechoslovakia: "I wish it were possible for me to take a quiet evening stroll past our new statue of President Wilson [in Prague]. They tell me it looks splendid under the floodlights at night. But alas I am always recognized and overwhelmed with public adulation...
...already and freely said that I shot the General Obregon. All this was merely to make me tell them who I was, that they might track down my supposed accomplices. . . . Finally, I told them my name," thus ending the torture...
...than James W. Good, the midwestern Hoover-izer who stopped and more than stopped the "farm revolt." Always cheerful but never overconfident, Mr. Good said, on the day before election, that estimating votes in advance was like driving a wagonload of bullfrogs to a pond-you couldn't tell from the noise how many had jumped...