Word: forcefullness
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Assistant U. S. Attorney William J. Millard said after the trial: "I hope that William J. Fallen has learned his lesson and will become a noble, forceful character and a great power for good in this community."
In his offices in Boston-colonial offices, exquisitely furnished-he appears, quiet, forceful, softspoken, a country gentleman, perhaps, receiving a caller in his study. I suppose many people think of him as a decided conservative, and of his publication as of the same shade of opinion. Not so. You have...
*Passed by two-thirds vote of the House, in April; of the Senate, in May; must be ratified by 36 states to become effective. † Good friends describe Hoke Smith as "tall, well-built, intellectual, forceful, genial, tactful; he does all the things that become a man." He was born...
The real reason for getting rid of him was to pay off old scores. A man of Millerand's forceful character makes many enemies, especially in politics, and those enemies were, according to report, determined to scalp him. There was no reason to doubt that this was so.
H. C. B.," as his chief, Lord Spencer, used to refer to him, was a man of staid Scotch qualities: intellectually honest, sober in all respects; a scholar of no mean repute, well-traveled and rich. His mind was practical. In Parliament he was formidable; in the country his speeches...