Word: forcefullness
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This was the equipment with which he won the anthracite strike of 1902, the strike into which President Roosevelt injected his forceful personality. At one meeting of railway presidents and miners' officials called by Roosevelt, everyone gave way to superheated anger. Only Mitchell, the storm centre, remained cool. Roosevelt was...
Before the American Newspaper Publishers' Association in Manhattan, U. S. Senator David A. Reed of Pennsylvania said a few forceful words:
The system now in use may not be as perfect as possible. Obviously it is not. But its presence is infinitely preferable to its absence, and improvements can be made any general or particular improvements, so much the better for all concerned. Some of the innovations and special characteristics may...
Inasmuch as a playwright and an actress are not features of every home, no universal implication can be drawn from O'Neill's forceful yoking of two creatures so wildly attuned and so woefully apart. Despite the everyday naturalness of his domestic shambles, he makes out no general...
Describing President Eliot at his in augural Professor Emerton '71, writing in the "Harvard Graduates' Magazine," says, "His commanding figure, erect and alert, his noble voice, once heard never to be forgotten, the persuasive authority of his manner, free then as always from all elocutionary trickery, the forceful simplicity of...