Word: velt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Court, who last year hoped in vain that Mr. Farley could induce President Roose velt to make him Ambassador to Italy. Mrs. Farley told her beaming husband of her triumphs : "Did we see Mussolini? Say, we saw everything. Yes, Mussolini, of course. A most charming man. He jumped up when we were ushered into his suite, rushed over and took our hands. The first thing he said was. 'Where are your husbands? Are you girls traveling alone?' "At the horse show in Rome we sat in the same box with the King. He seemed to be a very...
...might be trampled underfoot - not knowingly but inadvertently - be cause of your small stature and of the up lifted glance of a people whose 'eyes have seen the glory' and whose purpose is in tent on the inspired leadership of your neighbor and my friend Franklin Roose velt...
...Continued) velt drive toward the White House without being ill-tempered or gloomy. A favorite "Ding" theme derives from the Republican charge that Governor Roosevelt has neglected to keep his own state in economic order, has permitted stock speculators, crooked bankers, corrupt Tammany politicians and criminals in general to run riot through New York while he was trying to sell his presidential services to the country at large. Before the conventions he drew a memorable picture entitled "The Mysterious Powerless Phenomenon" in which Governor Roosevelt, hugging Miss 1932, sped by the Party Powers in an old buggy with empty shafts...
...Governor's first actions as Democratic nominee was to let it be known to all the world that, whatever Theodore Roosevelt (his fifth cousin ) may have called it, he calls it "Rose-a-velt...
...radio announcers, delegates, newspapermen and close friends of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the latter who should know better, mispronounce his name Rose-a-velt when it is distinctly Roosevelt...