Word: tional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rail and offered his hand. Mr. Fitzgerald seized it, shook it, mounted the platform, shook hands again. He began a speech, shook hands again. He continued speaking, shook hands again. He finished speaking, shook hands again. Mr. Fitzgerald then sang "Sweet Adeline" as he always does at emo- tional moments. Mr. Curley applauded. They shook hands (sixth time), for the cameras, and Boston's Democracy was lapped in perfect bliss for the first time since last spring...
Does he speak it as I was laboriously taught to pronunciation do, - supposedly the "con-sti-teeoo-tional" only or correct as you would indicate, without the fine shading upon the long...
...Chief Justice Taft-so far as ear detects-omits "the fine shading," pronounces it "con-sti-toooo-tional" as reported...
...word which, when used by Mr. Chief Justice Taft, acquires the timbre of archangelic trumpeting. "Con-sti-tooo-tional," says Mr. Chief Justice Taft...
...next train to Baccarat. "Why go there?" he was asked. "I was nursed," he answered, "by a poor French family there, and I've got 10,000 francs for them, and can't wait to get it into their hands." Other stories described the emo tional reunions of French mothers with daughters and sons-in-law who had made them grandmothers of small Americans up to ten years...