Word: unrooseveltian
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...tracking and slaying wild animals in an Africa not yet crowded by tourist-hunters. Taft stayed behind, corpulent, just, constantly annoying his children, the citizens, by his benevolent logic. They had voted for him because the dynamic, hustle-up Roosevelt had told them to. When they found how unRooseveltian Taft was, they were vexed. Their clamor pained and confused him. The late Senator Dolliver described him as a large, amiable island surrounded by people who knew just what they wanted. "Figuratively," as William Allen White says, "he used to come out upon the front stoop of the White House...
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