Word: nestor
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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Isaac R. Sherwood, enlisted as a private in the U. S. Army in April, 1861, mustered out as Brigadier General in October, 1865, the Nestor of the House of Representatives, rose before his colleagues in council: "In all the 60 years that have elapsed since the war there has not been one great dramatic poem written, one lyric equal to the soldiers' songs sung during that war, nor one of high moral import. We are living in a utilitarian age, and the spirit that actuated that great war appears to have gone. "What have we now? Yes, We Have...
...only is Senator Lodge the Nestor of the greatest legislative body in the world, and justly proud of the renown of his remarkable career, but he appreciates to the full the admirable qualities of Mr. Hanihara, he holds in highest esteem the splendid attributes of Mr. Hughes, and, in the course of his supplementary speech on May 8, while regretting his inability to grant the President's request for an extension of time in which to negotiate abrogation of the agreement with Japan, did not he say, with courtliness approaching enthusiasm, of Mr. Coolidge...