Word: thankfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have brought back everything except my voice. The emotion of a moment like this is beyond expression. I can only thank you." The small, deep-lidded eyes of Herbert Clark Hoover glistened with welling tears. A sentimental man, it visibly moved him to be back in California in his big rambling mansion on the Stanford University campus. He had not heard any returns yet. It was midday. He was only trying to thank a group of neighbors and admirers who had come up the hill to pay their respects. He had come into the State during the night, been...
...President & Mrs. Hoover walked out through a French window to the terrace. "All I can do is thank you for this demonstration of fine loyalty," he said, and again there were tears in his eyes. "A very great man has been defeated," explained Everett Sanders, the political hack who, as chairman of the Republican National Committee, was beaten too. "The millions of votes that have been cast for him constitute not only a marvelous tribute to him but approval of his policies. . . . "Millions have hoped that a political change would better their economic condition. This vote has outnumbered the votes...
...Marines, in which there were less than three hundred dissenting votes in a total of sixty-three thousand. Since then beautiful roads have been built by forced labor; finances have been stabilized by American officeholders; an efficient army, officered and drilled by Marines has been created. Haiti can indeed thank American intervention for a peaceful countryside and financial stabilization; American influence is everywhere paramount...
...nominee "because he's Wet and I'm Dry." When amid hurrahing thousands the Roosevelt automobile passed City Hall, Mayor Porter sprinted out, ran up to the machine, stuck out his hand, panted: "III want to welcome you to Los Angeles." All smiles, Governor Roosevelt shook his hand, said: "Thank you. I'm glad to be here. It's a great day and a great crowd...
...bench of the late great Hugh Philip of Scotland. "Just as fine a piece of skill this chap Philip had with golf clubs as Stradivari with his violins. There is nothing sweeter than some of his sticks. Fact is, every one of them I got is a treasure. Thank the Lord golf sticks can't be turned out like ice boxes. . . ." The Virginia gentry who will soon have a chance to see the work of the Stradivari of golf must thank a New Yorker for them. The golf museum was made possible through the munificence of an indefatigable museum...