Word: combativeness
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...Plainfield. His wife is the granddaughter of the late Alexander Smith, carpet tycoon. Since both men were Wet, the Stewart-McLean campaign, brief and bitter, turned only on national issues. Republican McLean asked for a vote of confidence in the Hoover Administration, eulogized the President's attempts to combat Depression. Democrat Stewart flayed President Hoover for "refusing to face the facts," for ducking and dodging economic responsibility. The Republican National Committee sent two second-string speakers into the district to help Nominee McLean whereas Jouett Shouse, Democratic executive chairman, and the two New York Senators stumped Morris and Union...
...people had accustomed but not blinded him to human misery. In the winter of 1914 he began trying to feed and house a few down-&-outers, many of them drunkards and criminals. What made them that way? wondered Father Flanagan. Deciding that the best place to combat human woe is near the beginning of human life, he borrowed $90, found five urchins, started a home for homeless, wayward, neglected boys. Since 1917, Father Flanagan's Boys' Home has become a source of pride to Omaha, a model institution for the nation. Through Father Flanagan's hands have...
Considerable of the interest aroused by the find was due to the fact that the cracked and battered old picture, on being thoroughly renovated and cleaned, was found contrary to general tradition not to represent the Battle of Fribourg but some entirely different combat, which has yet to be identified. Casanova was a celebrated painter of battle scenes who lived in the latter part of the eighteenth century. The picture in question originally belonged to the Conde family, later passed into the hands of Cardinal Fesch, and finally was given to the Lyons Museum who in turn loaned...
...want to see a football game!" Promptly a party was made up to take her to the Princeton-Navy combat. But a series of misunderstandings, including failure to be called for early breakfast, prevented. Came tears...
Unimpressive in civilian clothes, "in battle he was totally different: combat had the effect of creating in him, as though he were a lamp, a strong light. He was, at once, capable of a passionate cursing and a low-voiced impressive tranquillity of confidence. 'Damn you, sir,' he said to an officer who came galloping up, crying out some bad news above the roar of battle, 'don't yell at me!' In such moments of intensity he often leaned forward over his horse's neck and spoke with the utmost softness...