Word: rememberable
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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More than friends, they were partners in as strange and binding a relationship as any in U. S. political history. Franklin Roosevelt of the baronial Hudson Valley, of Groton, Harvard, the Wilson sub-Cabinet, was the Democratic candidate for Vice President in 1920 when he first met Jim Farley, the...
The great waves of pessimism that have swept over the United States relative to the future of the world have gotten me very impatient. . . . As far as history is concerned we must remember ten or 20 years is only a second. Napoleon kept Europe in an uproar for 15 years...
> For an account of the spread of the good news about Willkie, see p. 53. Important fact to remember is that it came about mainly through the normal operation of a free and alert press. As people learned about Willkie they liked him. In particular it must be credited to...
Ladies of Lake Forest, Ill. and Long Island, where he was lavishly entertained in 1933, well remember Balbo's flashing eyes, his bold gallantry, his gladiator physique. He had come a long way, in the social graces, from the fearless ruffian who helped D'Annunzio occupy Fiume and...
In his preface Hans Zinsser takes heart in a remark of Sainte-Beuve's: "Nothing is so painful to me as the disdain with which one often treats writers of the second rank, as if there were room only for those of the first." Considering the number and excellence...