Word: ve
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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News photographers begged Nominee Curtis to pose for them in the act of farming. Honest, he retorted: "You've got to take me as I am. I'm not farming...
...Having got that down on paper and looked at it, I hardly know how to go on. It's one thing to have fifteen or twenty people shouting a lot of questions at you at once. It's an experience, I might say, that I've got quite used to. But it's another thing to sit down and try to think up both questions and answers...
...come to the bower I've builded...
...blunt, bearish Marshal Chang* Tsung-chang, notorious during the present Civil War for his ruthless cruelty (TIME, March 7, 1927). As Chang's armored train pulled out for Manchuria, he growled to correspondents: "I won't answer questions! How should I know how many men I've got left, or how much money I've got left, or how many wives I've got left...
...Tories who nevertheless know nothing and care nothing about politics: "No one down here reads or writes. They eat, sleep, buy and sell horses, walk to the stables and back, tap the thermometer, fuss over their top boots, put ammonia in their baths; and such powers as they've got of conversation are exercised upon their stud grooms...