Word: well
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...read by her mother, father and three sisters. It then goes next door to the minister's, where he, his wife and daughters read it. It is then sent to Huntington, W. Va., where it is read by a man and his wife-and from there, well, I do not know where it goes, but the chances are that TIME'S journeys do not even then end. Summing it up: A safe estimate is that at least 50 people read the magazine in the public reading room, after which an even dozen read it in rotation...
...Guests at the White House for dinner one evening were three people who once lived there several years?Theodore, Kermit and Alice Roosevelt (now Longworth.) Theodore said that he was studying Spanish, not in order the better to converse with the President who knows it well, but in preparation for his duties as Governor of Porto Rico, in which the Senate had just confirmed...
...myself, anyone familiar with the Congressional records knows that I do not represent any company of any kind, the National Security League or any other society. I have received many indorsements from patriotic organizations, however. I am well known and well disliked. I fight internationalism, pacifism, and communism. I make many enemies and many friends...
...authority, Naval critic, writer and lecturer? and other things that won't bear repeating. Enthusiasts claim I am the best posted man in the U. S. on national defense. I claim nothing and expect less; but whatever I represent, it is all American?which seems to arouse suspicion as well as curiosity...
...knows too many after-dinner stories even to count. He knows his company for any particular one. He is no vulgarian. His manners would be called excellent except for his penchant to monopolize the conversation. On first acquaintance he seems a truly remarkable man. He does not wear well. That he has the talent and the information to make the mess a lot worse than it is, bad as it is, is not questioned...