Word: splendid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...confirms what I've often said about the splendid news service you give...
When the President learned that-although war had not been declared-Bolivian soldiers had captured Paraguayan Fort Boqueron, he cried from a balcony of the presidential palace, "in taking the fort our soldiers gave a splendid example of Bolivian patriotism. Viva the army; viva the commander of our forces in the Chaco; viva Bolivia...
...ones who speak largely of golf, poker and guzzling, like to hear about their U.S. counterparts. The little pitchers have big ears and the catchers wait anxiously every day to hear what is doing with big league catchers in Chicago. To them, the Yankees have always been as splendid as ancestors and the Giants have been a team of nine enormous men, as swift as birds, galloping upon a desert of turf and walloping a moonlike ball with tree-trunks...
...State Prison was transformed from a place of horror' to where the convicts were fed on Kansas flour instead of the soft indigestible (4 out of 5) local grown wheat which was good enough for the poor damn ranchers who only paid the taxes. 'His splendid system of roads are famous' for the political organizations he made out of the road camps. In these he made the slight error this year of making the tithe too heavy and Arizona is without her "protector...
...splendid Treasury." he said, to remind people why the Budget Bureau was established, "is not a bottomless, automatically replenishing fountain of fiscal supply, and its outflow must be eternally watched and carefully and wisely directed into proper channels...