Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...offences. Said he: "I stood where Woodrow Wilson stood within five weeks of the entry of America into the War. But he changed suddenly. I didn't. He was elected President for keeping us out of War. I was sentenced to ten years for trying to do the same thing. I refused to allow the United States Government to put a padlock on my lips. I had rather a thousand times be a man without a country than a man without a character...
...With the Reds, strikes are the usual thing; with the Fascisti they are the exception and the last resort. Strikes are always costly because each strike means the ruin of a certain amount of wealth and demands many weeks for recuperation of what was lost...
...bepimpled Todd had been removed, of necessity, to a nearby private sanatorium?and Inez would not desert him, having taken him for better or worse. The old magic closed around Jeffrey like a net of silk. He was fond of Joan? but Inez was, and had been, every- thing he cried for. Yet he could not bear to hurt Joan?and it was only after weeks of unhappiness that he mastered himself at last. Then, at the moment of crisis, he realized that Inez had only been an impulse for splendor in his life?an impulse fulfillment could only spoil...
This volume--widely advertised both outside and inside the covers as Coolidge's first biography--aspires to give a picture of the President as the "personal friend that he is" and to drive at "quality not quantity". Mr. Washburn, the biographer, has succeeded in one thing. He has written the first biography of Calvin Coolidge. I can't think of anything else in the book to call successful...
...steadying and binding influence. "That is not the idea at all" he replied. "We do not need political union with England, in fact we should keep away from the network of international rules which in themselves furnish plenty of ground for all sorts of bickering. Friendly feeling is the thing that should be developed. This does not mean that we, as a nation, must give up those principles of independence for which we fought with England at the time of the Revolution. That time is past and those problems have been met. Now we must fix firmly the bond...